M = Media
N = News
RS = Radio Session
TV = Television Appearence
The Stone Roses = Release

Steve 'Adge' Atherton - Tour Manager
Terri Hall - The Stone Roses' Publicist.
Susanne Filkin - The Stone Roses' A&R representative at Geffen America.
Roy Hamm - The Stone Roses' Publicist 'PR' at Geffen America.
Steve Sutherland - Senior Staff at Geffen and NME Editor.
Doug Goldstein - Management (Left March 1995).

1995
1995 - John Squire continues creating art:
‘Begging You‘ (plaster floppy discs and watercolour on plywood 35" x 35") *Partially influenced by Jasper John's piece ‘Numbers’, 1960.
‘Driving South’ (wood glue, sand, toy cars and bitumen on plywood. 24" x 24“)
August 1995 - 'Help EP'
August 1995 - 'Help LP' (Apparently, completed in just a week.)

March 1995 - Ride On Fanzine is published.
Notes: Their was at least 4 different issues published.

Bad Man Wagon - 1995 - Chronic Hydrophonic
Toasting by Cressa. Written by S.Cressa/S.Birtwistle.
Produced by Bad Man Wagon and Andrew Robinson.
Recorded at Primetime Studio.
Robs Records. 10inch Vinyl, 10ROB44
Chronic Hydrophonic
Sonic Dub
Notes: Rob Gretton, former New Order manager's, label. Cressa's band.

M - January 1995 - Pennie Smith Photo Shoot
Notes: For Geffen MCA Press Photos. Reni does not look happy in any of the photos.

M - January 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Japanese Crossbeat Magazine

05-09 January 1995 - London
Ride On
Notes: Apparently the band mix/remix tracks for upcoming single releases. Maybe Moses and Ride On are included.
May 1995 - SOS Sound On Sound website, Article By Matt Bell, Simon Dawson said: With the album finished at last and in the shops, I asked Simon whether he had exhausted the vaults of finished material, or whether there were more as‑yet‑unreleased tracks? Sheepishly, Simon admits that there's "loads of ideas, not actually finished songs. There's a couple of new tracks for B‑sides on the new single ['Ten Storey Love Song'] which grew out of the album sessions: 'Moses' and another one which we did in London at the start of January called 'Ride On'. We did that very quickly, in just three or four days, because the guys had to go to the States, but we did it, and it sounds great"....

11 January 1995 - The Stone Roses fly to the L.A. again to discuss the U.S. Tour with Geffen Records and promote the new record.
Notes: The band stayed at the West Hollywood Apartments, L.A. Geffen discuss the bands upcoming itinerary. John is ill during the duration of the bands stay and is later diagnosed with pneumonia.
From February 1996 - Q Magazine, Article/Review by John Harris: "I collapsed walking from the toilet to my bed, which was about where that ashtray is (a matter of a few feet). It was pretty scary. I was in bed for two weeks, feeling like I was drowning. Then we flew to America, and I remember 0 who was on the plane? – Goldie Hawm and Kurt Russell, being fashionably late, with the bags of shopping running for the gate, I was behind them, the last one on board. It was the illest I’ve ever been.
From 01 March 1995 -'The Face Magazine' Issue 78, March 95: John Squire doesn’t manage to leave his room during my time with the The Stone Roses in LA. The doctor visits every day. Meal trays come and go, the sound of Natural Born Killers on his TV spills sporadically into the corridor and the gut-wrenching, terminal coughing is never ending. The band’s guitarist, principal songwriter and sleeve artist is not well at all. A couple of days after I arrive back in London, however, the phone rings and John’s voice is on the line, agonisingly faint, but full of apologies. He still breaks off sentences to cough violently, but is much improved; he’s been playing guitar to himself in his room (“some of the old songs, ‘Waterfall’, ‘Adored’, ‘Resurrection”‘) and has now managed to watch Natural Born Killers “four or five times”.
Manager Doug Goldstein said: “Reni wasn‘t certain he wanted to take it on: a year and a half being away from home, touring and promoting the record.”

January 1995 - Love Spreads Video Shoot, Los Angeles, USA
Notes: The band's U.K Video is refused airplay by MTV because of its "poor quality".

January 1995 - Love Spreads Japanese Release Date
CD MVCG-13012 , Y1,300 Yen.

1995 - Love Spreads U.S & Canada Release Date
Label: Geffen Records
Artwork: '' John Squire
Format: CD. Catalog Number:
Notes: Peaked At Number 55 On The U.S. Hot 100 Airplay Billboard Chart. Peaked At Number 67 On The Canadian RPM Top Singles Chart.
Love Spreads U.S. Video
In L.A. the Roses re-shot the video for Love Spreads with director by Steve Hanft (Propaganda Films). Steve had directed, Geffen label mate, Beck's video 'Loser'. Beck even had a small cameo in the promo video.
From 01 March 1995 -'The Face Magazine' Issue 78, March 95: How important is success in America? John: All I desire is to make enough money to make another record. Reni: Yeah, it’s important in that if this LP doesn’t sell we might not be making the next. Ian: It’s only important that they can see us and we can see them. Mani: The boy and girl shagging to our record- that’s what’s really important.
From March 1995 - Q Magazine, Who the hell do The Stone Roses think they are? (March 1995) by Adrian Deevoy: "The reason why no British band has taken the US in the last 10 years," continues Brown, warming to his theme and regaining some of his old arrogance, "is that none of them have been any good."
"America's there for us if we want it," he claims boldly. "It's ours."

16 January 1995 - Second Coming U.S.A Release Date
Notes: The album entered the charts at number 47. The LP goes platinum after selling 300,00 Copies.

17 January 1995 - Modern Rock Live Session, L.A., U.S.A.
Notes: Interview only. Ian causes controversy during an the radio interview by saying the American army should "stop killing babies“. His remarks are prompted after hearing adverts urging citizens to join up.

23 January 1995 - KITS 105.3 FM, San Francisco Bay Radio, Studios, Oakland, U.S.A.
Notes: DJ Mark Hamilton Session. Interview with Mani, John, Ian & Reni.
When asked what he thought of America at Kits Live 105, in San Francisco, Reni replied, “Very small, cramped.”
Bootleg: US Radio Interviews - ((IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Sometimes noted as 'Kitz Radio') Tape - FM Radio Broadcast

23 January 1995 - KOME 98.5 FM, San Jose Radio, Studios, San Jose, U.S.A.
Notes: Interview, see 1995-1996 Media for the transcript.
Bootleg: US Radio Interviews - (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Tape - FM Radio Broadcast

M - 25 January 1995 - Michael Eavis asks the band to headline this year's Glastonbury Festival.
Notes: "I'm hopeful they will play," he says. The Roses are "very keen", apparently.

28 January 1995 - Melody Maker reveal the dates for the secret shows
Notes: The Stone Roses announced a short secret tour of U.K. shows. All the shows were cancelled. John Squire was ill with pneumonia, which started in the U.S.A..
Apparently the tour itinerary included shows at Blackwood, Ipswich, Belfast, Glasgow and Liverpool.
From 01 March 1995 -'The Face Magazine' Issue 78, March 95: While the other members of The Stone Roses have been professionally vague about the more specific upcoming plans, John is soon revealing all. “Yeah, we’re playing all those small clubs in March – Blackwood, Ipswich, Belfast, Glasgow and Liverpool I’ve got on my itinerary here. They’re secret dates: bloated four-hour sets, I think!”
From 04 March 1995 - NME Magazine News: However, venues for the Roses' five-date UK tour - Ipswich, Blackwood, Liverpool, Glasgow and one other city - are being changed after being revealed in last weeks' NME. A spokesperson said: "They like to stay one step ahead. They don't like people to know what's going on too early."
From 20 April 1996 - John Squire appears on the cover of the NME (New Musical Express) Magazine: What happened when Reni left? John said “Well, running up to it left us looking like pricks with interviews and photo sessions and a video shoot. It just became apparent that he wanted out but he didn’t know how to do it. We had ten days, I think it was ten or 12 days to go to the tour. We’d already had to blow out the secret tour because we simply weren’t ready to play it. The rehearsals hadn’t been going very well. Nobody was really in shape to do it. So I just remember it being a really mad rush to cram everything in. Any time in our history it would have been a major blow to lose a member, ten days before a gig never mind a tour, because we’re all the sort of people who’ve played in bands since we were 11 and doing pub gigs every night. It was kind of a one-off.”

M - February 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Japanese Crossbeat Magazine
After the exclusive interview for Big Issue was published, the interview article was auctioned at their request to the press around the world. The contract money exchanged for its publishing rights, in line with the magazine's original purpose, was handed over to The Big Issue for the reintegration of homeless people. The Interview was later used by Melody Maker newspaper & in Japan, February 1995, Crossbeat Magazine magazine published the full interview.

M - February 1995 - The Stone Roses feature on the cover of VOX Magazine, February 1995, Issue 53, £2
Notes: Full band photo featuring Reni. Headline read 'We'll Never Sell Out!, Stone Roses The Interview, The Producer, The Scam'

M - February 1995 - The Stone Roses feature on the cover of Select Magazine, February 1995
Notes: Full band photo featuring Reni. Headline read 'So, what kept you?'

13 February 1995 - Ten Storey Love Song Video Shoot, Bow Street Studios, East London
Notes: Ian wanted to use Wiz for the video but the band asked Sophie Muller instead. Wiz came down to the shoot and met with the band. Ian would later work with Wiz for some of his solo promo videos (see 12 January 1998 - My Star).
From Simon Spence's Book 'War & Peace': The video was shot by English director Sophie Muller best known for her work with The Eurythmics, Sade, Shakespeare’s Sister and Annie Lennox. Remarkably, drummer Reni did not even bother to show for the video shoot, and was instead represented by a Pennie Smith photo of his head blown-up and stuck on a stick. Brown also missed the first day of the two days shoot.
Geffen handed her a huge budget. The shoot was planned to take place in London. Muller hired a huge crew and did a big set build. On the first day, just Squire and Mani showed. “I think what happened was that it was Ian’s son’s birthday,” she said. “And he wanted to go to the birthday party and he was still up north. And I remember saying to them, does he realise that there’s sixty people just sitting waiting? It was one of those weird, kind of surreal things. He phoned and said he’d be down later, and I was like, down later ? This is a film-shoot! The record company were freaking out. Ian turned up right at the end of the day and said, let’s get on with it. I showed him the script and he said, oh I don’t want to do any of this. I was like, what do you mean you don’t want to do it, that’s the script, haven’t you seen it before? And he went, no! I just thought it was hilarious, there was this huge video and two of the band didn’t turn up and then when one of them did turn up, he didn’t want to do the idea because he hadn’t read the treatment!”
Video Bootleg: TV Appearances Compilation (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Running Time approx: 90mins. VHS Video Originally Priced: £16.00, DVD £18) Video (PAL, NTSC) - Running Time (Approx): 80 mins (TV appearences) / 30 mins (Manchester 85) - Ian and John interview 1988 - Elephant Stone / Waterfall on The Other Side Of Midnight show, 1989 / I Wanna Be Adored (Manchester Hacienda, February 1989) - Very short Reni interview (Backstage, Hacienda) - Sugar Spun Sister (Hacienda) / She Bangs The Drums (Slo-Mo Promo) / Longish Ian and John interview, 1989 / She Bangs The Drums (Blackpool Promo) / Rapido Interview (uncut), October 1989 / Fools Gold on TOTP (November 1989) / Made Of Stone (Late Show - Power Cut, November 1989) / Fools Gold (Promo) / Elephant Stone (Promo) / Fools Gold mimed on Satellite TV, and interview with all four Roses / One Love (Promo) / I Wanna Be Adored (Promo) / Waterfall (OSM - improved quality version, but only half the performance) / Love Spreads (Promo) / Ten Storey Love Song (Promo) / Short MTV Interview / News on MTV of Reni leaving / Love Spreads (Feile Festival, August 1995) - Breaking Into Heaven (Feile Festival) / Recording Love Spreads live version for the Help! Album / Begging You (Promo) / Interview with Mani after leaving the Roses / Sally Cinnamon (Promo) / Love Spreads (US Promo, unedited) / Ten Storey Love Song (Unedited promo, without special effects!) / Love Spreads (Finished US Promo) / Love Spreads on Beavis and Butthead / Love Spreads on Red Cross Commercial

20 February 1995 - Ian Brown's 32nd birthday

25 February 1995 - All the secret shows were cancelled.
Notes: John Squire was still ill with pneumonia, or 'pleurisy' depending on which article you read. Dates included 06 April 1995 - State Ballroom, Liverpool.

27 February 1995 Monday - Ten Storey Love Song U.K Release Date
Ten Storey Love Song - Written by John Squire. Produced by Simon Dawson and Paul Schroeder. Partly recorded by John Leckie. Mixed by Bill Price in (ou)R SOUND.
Moses - Written by John Squire, Alan Wren & Gary Mounfield. Produced & Engineered by Simon Dawson and Paul Schroeder. Mixed by Bill Price in (ou)R Sound.
Ride On - Written by John Squire/Ian Brown. Lyrics by Ian Brown. Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Simon Dawson
Label: Geffen Records
Artwork: 'David and his 34 slightly misshapen brothers' 1993, John Squire. Photography by Pennie Smith, Design by Kevin Reagan. Artists and Repertoire by Tom Zutaut, Suzanne Filkins.
Format: 7inch Vinyl. Catalog Number: GFS 87
Format: Cassette. Catalog Number: GFSC 87
Ten Storey Love Song (Single Edit)
Ride On
Format: 12inch Vinyl. Catalog Number: GFST 87
Format: CD. Catalog Number: GFSTD 87. (Matrix: B5966 GFSTD 87 . 1:0 Mastered By Nimbus. Plastic Ring: ifpi ? 2366?) Barcode: 5021508008720. Made In England
Ten Storey Love Song (noted as LP Version but is in fact a Single Version, due to the fade out.)
Moses
Ride On
Format: Promo CD. Catalog Number:
Ten Storey Love Song (Radio Edit) 3:37
Notes: From promo poster 'on two track 7" and cassette and three track 12" and CD'. The original advert noted all formats include previosuly unreleased tracks.' Peaked At Number 11 In The U.K. Charts.
CD Sleeve indicates Ten Storey Love Song as the LP version despite the obvious fade out.
From the released tracks, post 1990, John and Ian only wrote together, Begging You and Ride On.
Richard Milward named his second novel Ten Storey Love Song after the Roses track.
Artwork
Notes: From 01 March 1995 -'The Face Magazine' Issue 78, March 95: and about John’s latest sleeve art (John Squire: “The idea’s just been to get away from the Jackson Pollock impersonations. This new single features a square box full of cheap models of Michelangelo and for the one after that I’ve smashed up some floppy discs from my sampler, glued them down and painted over them”).
B-Sides
From 01 March 1995 -'The Face Magazine' Issue 78, March 95: When John Squire gets sick, strange things seem to start happening this most unorthodox of bands. As he languishes with what is variously described as flu, pneumonia and pleurisy, the timing and location my meeting with the group become ever-changing variables. Meanwhile not only are the B-sides of the next single not getting finished as quickly expected (“the other three seem to be slacking a bit” comes one report from the studio), but the A-side seems to have become somewhat erratic well. Since the release of “The Second Corning” in December, the world has been under the impression that the follow-up single to “Love Spreads” will be the swooping swooner “Ten Storey Love Song”. Now, “Breaking Into Heaven” and “How Do You Sleep” (the latter playlisted Radio 1) are suddenly also being whispered about. The way both Reni and Mani are describing the current state of the Roses’ garden, the world can expect to see individual songwriting credits for all four of the group in the future. Ian, for his part, says he already has “about 20 new halves” starred, while John claims “this band’s never been about holding anyone back creatively”. The situation obviously recalls the way that the bands’ idols, The Beatles, began to draw increasingly on all four members to bolster songwriting depth. Reni plays me the latest song The Stone Roses have recorded, a new Squire/Brown co-composition “Ride On”. One part swampy atmospherics, one part towering guitar slabs, “Ride On” is a dark, cosmic slop with a Marvin Gaye sample buried in its midst. Reni thinks it’s “technically so-so, but spiritually spot-on”. Others will, no doubt, see it as a further sign of the dreaded “muso” disease afflicting their pop prophets. Where once there was the strict three minute-aesthetic of, say, “Mersey Paradise” and “She Bangs The Drums”, now thereis talk of a loose, musical maturity. “But I’m really looking forward to when we don’t write pop stuff like that,” says Reni, “because even when we were doing it we were thinking, ‘This will do until we write something really good.’ We’re writing tunes now in the way I pictured a great band doing it when I was ten. Pure and live, with space and depth, get it together in ten minutes and stick it down.
From 04 March 2011 - Clash Magazine/Website article "The Life And Times Of The Stone Roses, Avanti! fanzine and Melody Maker writer Dave Simpson said: There were a lot of rumours about what was happening with the Roses. I think every so often journalists would be sent to try and find out - you know, talk to someone in the cake shop down the road from the studio or something, There’d be rumours that Mani had grown a massive beard and wanted to be called Moses. There was a hilarious story that Matthew Priest from Dodgy started, that Ian Brown wished to be addressed as ‘King Monkey’. It just seemed ridiculous.

24 May 1995 - Ten Storey Love Song Japanese Release Date
MVCG-13024, Y1,300

27 February 1995 Monday - Evening Session, BBC Radio 1, BBC Studios, London
Notes: Ian, Mani and Reni interview with Steve Lamaq and Jo Whiley BBC Radio 1. Mani reveals Slaughter And The Dogs were the band that made him want to pick up a guitar.
Ian Brown plays the Zeppelin soaked wonder that is 'One Time For The Rebel' by Son of Bazerk, and then strenuously points out that The Wonder Stuff wasn't one of the band's choice of records.
JW: That was The Wonder Stuff, and we have The Stone Roses with us till 9 O’Clock tonight, er, lots more of their choice records, loads of questions –
I: [interrupting] That WASN’T one of our choices, just… let’s get that right.
M: Miles Hunt – rhyming slang.
Reni discloses that he was in a band called Dealer before he joined the Roses.
SL: Right, OK. Ben and James in Cumbria, ‘Were any of you in bands before The Stone Roses, and were you any good?’
I: I was in a band called ‘The Patrol’ and we were no good.
R: I was in a band called ‘Dealer’, and we were wicked, man.
SL: Dealer?!
R: Yeah. And our influences were: AC/DC, UFO, Eddie van Halen, that’s with Dave Lee Roth, well, before I realised a few things about the guy, and, er… stuff like that.
SL: How long was your hair at that point?
R: Well I never really had big hair, y’know, I was always a pretty tight crop with the hair usually. I stuck out in a crowd, because at the time lost of my friends were what they call ‘stinkers’ y’know and… there’s this big mod revival movement going round now… well if you were a heavy metal freak, you were called a stinker, that’s what they used to call them in the North-West of England.
SL: Really? No, I haven’t heard of that one. Stinker.
R: I used to hang out with the stinker crowd, man, yeah. And we were like, y’know, hanging out in the Hell’s Angels pubs and stuff, and everyone was into AC/DC.
See 1995-1996 Media for the transcript.

M - March 1995 - The Stone Roses, Ian & Mani Interview appears in Q Magazine.
Notes: Conducted by Adrian Deevoy at the Kensington Hilton Hotel, London. See Media for the article.

March 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Japanese Rockin' On 3 Magazine

March 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Total Guitar Magazine, Issue Number 04

M - 01 March 1995 - Ian Brown appears on the cover of 'The Face Magazine' Issue 78, March 95
Notes: The Stone Roses interview, Thai-resturaunt, Sunset Strip, L.A., CA. Cover noted 'To Hell & Back, Stone Roses, The first major interview'. See Media for the article.

Ian Brown on Happy Mondays 01 March 1995 - Ian Brown appears on the cover of 'The Face Magazine' Issue 78, March 95: I’d always thought that us and the Mondays would make things more real, but – and I don’t know why it happens – it all peters out and goes wrong. You know those lads in the Mondays, I feel proper sorry for them, They’re great musicians and they can play, but I seen Mark Day a year ago and you know what? He couldn’t afford to buy a cot for his daughter.”

March 1995 - John Squire told Los Angeles Times / The Face magazine he’d had a cocaine problem during the making of Second Coming.
Notes: The Los Angeles Times featured an article regarding John's substance abuse "I made the mistake of using cocaine for a while, thinking it would make me productive, but it just made me more unsure, more paranoid.".
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: In March, 1995, John Squire told The Face he’d had a cocaine problem during the making of Second Coming. Why do you think John succumbed to cocaine? “Dunno. Easy to get – you’re in a band, you get the best gear. You start off using it to bolster your confidence. You’re insecure. But then you can’t go out without using it. You’re using it in the studio, you’re using it at home. Pick the phone up, the next thing four grammes are arriving. So you shut yourself in your room, you never come out. I’d go away for a week, come back and no one’s talking. He’s not talking to him, he thinks he’s a dick, and he thinks he’s a dick, and I’m trying to be the daddy of them all. I’m walking in each room and getting big hugs, but he won’t work with him. Charlie is the devil, simple as that.”
From March 1995 - Q Magazine, Who the hell do The Stone Roses think they are? (March 1995) by Adrian Deevoy: "I've haven't done chemicals for three or four years now," says Brown, allowing some green tea to infuse in his London hotel room. "Don't smoke ganja either. I've only had coke twice in my life and it turned me into the most arrogant, unbearable person in the world."
"I woke up one day," declares be-hatted bassist John [sic-Will] "Mani" Mounfield in the chewiest of Manchester accents, "and thought, shit, I've been taking drugs now for longer than I haven't. I want to bring kids into the world. I don't want to end up dead before I'm 40. So I sacked it."...
From Autumn 2001 Mojo Collections Number 04: “There’s been a lot reported in the press about John and his cocaine habit,” says Dawson .. “And you know, I never saw him take cocaine, ever. And I was with them for 14 months. He was taking cocaine — he’s said so himself— but I never saw anyone taking it. “There was a problem with lan and the amount of smoke he was doing. That was difficult to cope with. It was difficult to under stand what he was saying. And when he was very stoned, it was very difficult to understand what he was saying. And sometimes … there was stuff happening that was a bit odd. Like when he shaved his head, and Reni did the same thing to try and hold it all together.” Brown later admitted as much: “I smoked too much. It just turned my head to mush. If you smoke all day and night you just get hyper-critical and you never get to the end of anything.”
03 January 1998 - NME Magazine: Ian Brown: “In ’95 I was saying, ‘Will this work, can we bring it back?’ And I think by the end of the year we had done. But there was always a gap. On those tours there were two buses: the cocaine bus and the non-cocaine bus. And if someone’s on coke you can’t work with them. It’s simple. There’s no-one in my life now who takes cocaine. Everybody that I know who takes coke I’ve just cut them out of my life and I feel great now.”
So which bus were you on? “I was on the non-cocaine bus. Six of us. And all the rest is coked-up. I can’t stand cocaine. It’s the weakest thing you can do. There’s no love, there’s no soul.”

01 October 2009 Thursday 12:14 - The Guardian Newspaper article, by Guardian Music - Hannah Pool Interview: Ian Brown talks to Hannah Pool about the Stone Roses and his solo career...And the worst (Roses memory)? Walking into John's [Squire] room and seeing him with another delivery of cocaine in a big pile on his table. It's 11 in the morning and he's snorting lines of cocaine and I'm thinking, "Shit, is that what we are now? Do you have to take coke at 11 in the morning just so that you can come up with a guitar line? I thought we were against all that. I thought we were the real article. If he could have seen himself when he was 15, doing that, he'd have been horrified...
23 September 2005 Friday 23:59 - The Guardian Newspaper article, by Simon Hattenstone, Interview by Simon in a Milkshake bar in West London: "We had two buses - the coke bus and the weed bus. All the crew who was into the charlie travelled with him. It was all the white guys on charlie with him, and me and all black guys on our bus. The black guys just had a good laugh. They weren't on coke, they didn't need it."
1998 - Hot Press, Interview by Stuart Bailie, in a bar in Chorlton: Squire later confessed that he had over-indulged in cocaine during the wilderness years, that the drug made him anti-social. In contrast, Brown passses on alcohol, fuels up on bananas and treats his face with Clinique Pour Homme moisturiser. He does press-ups, stretches and sit-ups, and works out on a rowing machine. He is deeply contemptuous of cocaine users.
"When you go into a place where people are using it, you can feel the coke straight away" he snarls. "There’s no love in the place, no soul. They’re saying nothing. They’re wastin’ our time, like an entire generation all on coke. We know that coke is the devil. In the 70’s punk came to destroy coke and now it’s cool again."
"If you’re gonna make records on coke, do what Marvin Gaye did and let’s hear the torture, how you’re fighting for your soul. You can hear it on What’s Going On. Look at how he ended up. A world superstar, and he was on his own in Belgium. Playing dates in Ostend. To get away from coke. I gave up powders in 1990. But I never went mad on them, no."
From 13 May 1995 - Melody Maker Magazine, Review and Interview by Dave Simpson: John, there were reports in a US tabloid that you'd had a serious problem with cocaine during the making of Second Coming. Correct? (Mani and Ian shuffle uneasily in their chairs.)
JOHN (staring at the table): "Yeah. I did too much."
How serious was the problem? (Cue distracting noises from Ian and Robbie.)
JOHN: "It made me anti-social."
I took Tears to be about that. ("Somebody throw me a line/I need it, need it bad…")
JOHN: "No, I never thought about it like that."
IAN: "I sung it. Never went through me head."
JOHN: "Tears is a love song."
ROBBIE: "Every song's got a million meanings, man. You make your own mind up."
...There's always been a lot of religion in the Stone Roses music, from the lyrics of Resurrection to the title 'Second Coming' and the imagery on Driving South. Why do you take so much from The Bible?
JOHN: "It's unconscious. Resurrection was Ian's and Second Coming, that's public domain, innit? I thought it was cocky and tongue-in-cheek at the same time."
IAN: "I read The Bible whenever it takes me. I read Exodus a lot during the Gulf War, when we were recording in Wales. It hit home cos here was this rich family who was bringing the biggest army in the world to kill poor people. We couldn't do anything to stop it."
Could God have done something to stop it? IAN (thoughtfully): "Yeah. God's creative, not destructive. God is a creation."
One thing I particularly liked about Love Spreads were the lyrics "The Messiah is my sister", which sound really innocuous when you hear them on the radio but in fact you're questioning thousands of years of Christianity by saying that. It's a casually controversial thing to have in a pop song.
IAN: "I don't see it as controversial."
Tell that to the Pope!
IAN: "Well, if you read the Dead Sea scrolls, they tell you that Mary Magdalene gave Him his power."
ROBBIE: "Do you know what The Bible calls the church? 'She'. It's like what The Bible calls the earth, 'Mother Earth'."
Maybe, but it's always been written that God/Jesus was a Him. You could be on the brink of a major religious and political storm here, with people - in Italy or Ireland say - burning records in the street like they did with The Beatles!
JOHN: "The idea of the song is, 'Why couldn't Jesus have been a black woman?' It's just an attack on the white guy with a beard sittin' on a cross, cos that reinforces the patriarchal society."

March 1995 - Newport Council has spent £2,500 replacing ten stone cherubs which have been stolen from bridges and monuments in the town.
Notes: Ian Brown tells the South Wales Echo: "People should have more respect for architecture. "

M - 04 March 1995 - The Stone Roses features on the cover of NME (New Musical Express) Magazine
Notes: Front page headline read 'We're stll arrogant sods! The Stone Roses take on the world'. The NME priced at 80p. See Media for the interview.
From NME News Section: Meanwhile, Newport Council has spent £2,500 replacing ten stone cherubs which have been chipped off bridges and monuments in the town. The cherub, part of Newport's coat of arms, was used as artwork on the 'Love Spreads' single....

09 March 1995 Thursday - Gareth Evan's discusses the upcoming case with the band's lawyers

10 March 1995 Friday - Gareth Evan's High Court Case, London is settled out of court
Notes: Gareth was sueing the band for wrongful dismissal and originally demanded £10 million pounds. The band never went to court (court date was 15 March 1995), the case was settled out of court (10 March) for an undisclosed amount. Lawyers for both sides met over the weekend to thrash out who would pay the legal costs.

March 1995 - Cottonworks Rehearsal Rooms, Mill, Ardwick, Manchester
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Don’t Stop / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Standing Here / Love Spreads / Good Times / Shoot You Down / This Is The One / Drivin’ South / Made Of Stone / I Am The Resurrection / Beggin’ You / Fools Gold
Notes: Unconfirmed.
From March 1995 - NME Magazine News: Meanwhile, the band have signed a clothes sponsorship deal with Cottonworks, the casual fashion house that also sponsors Take That and The Orb.
The firm has also provided the Roses with rehearsal rooms at its factory in Ardwick, Manchester, which the band were last week using to prepare for their forthcoming UK tour.
During these sessions the band has been playing ‘I Wanna Be Adored’, ‘Waterfall’, ‘She Bangs The Drums’, ‘Don’t Stop’, ‘Made Of Stone’, ‘Shoot You Down’, ‘This Is The One’, ‘I Am The Resurrection’, ‘Standing Here’, ‘Fools Gold’, ‘Love Spreads’, ‘Breaking Into Heaven’, ‘Drivin’ South’, ‘Ten Storey Love Song’, ‘Daybreak’, ‘Good Times’, ‘Beggin’ You’, ‘Tightrope’ and ‘Your Star Will Shine’..
Drummer Reni told NME that currently one of his favourite bands was superstar metallers Megadeath. “I went to see them and I was getting down with the metalheads,” he said.

30 March 1995 - Reni leaves The Stone Roses.
Notes: The official statement was only made 04 April 1995.
NME printed a article including the statement "Reni has left. He has been replaced by Maddix who is 25 and who is a friend.", see Media for the complete article.
In an interview with the UCD college newspaper (circa January 2003), John Squire has claimed it was Ian, not him, who had the row with Reni that led to the drummer quitting the Roses.
From 13 May 1995 - Melody Maker Magazine, Interview by Dave Simpson: So, Reni has left. What the hell happened?
IAN BROWN: "Time ran its course. The way it is is the way it is. He'd had enough so he left."
Reni's departure seems like a snap decision. Is that the case or had it been brewing up for a while?
IAN: "Over the years we've often talked about it but we've been mates, buds, for 12 years."
JOHN SQUIRE (quietly): "Reni's been talking about leaving for about a year."
It had been noticed that Reni had recently made a habit of not turning up for the band's promotional appearances: interviews, photo sessions and the like. The sketchy news stories concerning Reni's departure have all hinged on his "unreliability".
IAN: "He had his reasons for doing what he did."
MANI (irritated): "We can't sit here and diss him, man, Reni's had a lot of f***ing bad shit in his life and that… you get onto something else man. You ain't gonna get shit out of us."...
Ian Brown Interview from Uncut Magazine, June 2006, Issue 109: Reni left first. Rumour has it he was on heroin… “Yeah. Well, he didn’t get up until 9 o’clock every night.” an you confirm the smack stories? “Not really. It’s one thing we’ve never really talked about because he’s got kids and he’s never really done an interview since. It’s down to him.” Fair enough. But there was heroin in the Roses camp? “It ended up being, yeah. And that’s what probably also fucked it all up because you can’t play with junkies. Unless you’re all junkies.” Did you ever try heroin? “Never tried it. I used to buy weed from a couple on Coronation Street and they used to beg us not to take it: ‘You’re the Roses, you don’t need it.’ I had junkie friends who’d sell me weed, but they made sure we never touched it. I’ve sat with kids doing it, but never tried it.”
From 06 March 2009 - Uncut Magazine Interview with Ian Brown: So, how gutted were you when Reni left? Not half as gutted as when he was there. But we still had our moments. We still had some great shows. I mean, Brixton in ‘95 was our best show after Glasgow Green that we ever played. I think we’re more consistent with Robbie Maddox on the drums. We’re sort of good to great every night, whereas with Reni we were great one night, good the next and crap the next.
Really? Because he’s got a reputation of being one of the best drummers of that era. He’s probably the best drummer I’ve ever seen, still. So, why was he so inconsistent? It wasn’t just him. It was all of us. Just the dynamic? Yeah. Sometimes it worked and it was amazing. Sometimes it didn’t. Right. So do you speak to Reni much? I haven’t spoken to Reni since 2001.
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: Had you anticipated Reni leaving? “Yeah. Because of the situation, he wanted to leave to spite John, but he didn’t want to do it to me. I’d considered leaving myself, in 1993. It was no surprise to me when Reni left.” Because no reason for Reni’s departure was given at the time, rumour spread that it was either down to arguments about money, or that the drummer had a heroin problem. Was that untrue? “[hesitating] No one had a beef about money… if we’d have delivered 50 songs, we’d have shared £20 million.”
From 2001 I Am Without Shoes Exclusive Mani Interview: > IAWS: Reni – it seemed a sudden decision to quit the band? Mani: Not really. Reni is a calculated guy, he would’ve thought long and hard before deciding to leave. I think he saw the way things were going before the rest of us. He sussed out moves by certain other members of the band and realised that people had their own agendas, so he got out of it. > IAWS: Part of the reason it seemed sudden was because of the radio interviews you’d been doing a few months prior to him quitting, in which he was the most talkative member of the band, and was talking a lot about his and the band’s plans for the future. > Mani: Yeah, well, people put up smokescreens, don’t they? That’s all it was man, a smokescreen.
From 01 March 1995 - 'The Face Magazine' Issue 78, March 95 Do you think The Stone Roses will still be together in 1999? John: I think the group’s really strong. I hope we will be. Ian: I know we’ll still be together. The best is yet to come. Reni: I’d like us to stick an album out every year until 1999. Mani: Listen, I’m not going back on the dole for nobody. Reni at the crossroads. “These things don’t change the way you look, but you grow up so much inside,” he says. “You stop being a surly, sulky little bastard, basically.” It is 11am, the Stone Roses’ drummer has just got out of the shower, and he is already in hill flow. He tells me has drumming could currently do with some real work on it, that he now meets better drummers in the New York subway. He’s the most replaceable member of the group, he believes, although you sense that, right now, he’d far rather be sampling Gang Starr loops than blowing his own trumpet. “In every band I’ve been in, I’ve always been the best player in the room,” he says. “And that’s not true any more.” Reni is a dad now too – and has been for longer thin he ever knew, in fact. “I’ve two kids at home now, two boys, and that wasn’t really planned at all. But I’ve got another little girl as well, she’s nine now. My daughter, right, she’s being chased around at the moment back home by journalists. Her mother’s being hounded out of a bar job because these people keep turning up asking all these questions. Now what’s happened between me and her in the past and what money I give them has got nothing to do with the fucking News Of The World.” So what’s the story? “Millionaire Star’s Secret Daughter!”? “Stone Rose’s Thorny Past!”? Reni says the story’s not there, and that no one concerned would be selling it even if it was. “None of us are millionaires, anyway, not even quarter millionaires, not even ten per cent.” “I never knew this little girl was mine, right, and I’d been told in the past it was nothing to do with me. But then when I saw her as a seven-year-old child it was just this self-evident thing. So I had the DNA tests straight away and that was it for me, since that day I’ve seen her weekly as often as I can. I took her straight home to mine and introduced her to her two little brothers. The whole parenthood thing, it just knocks you sideways.” Reni has not had a quiet five years. As well as helping to bring up two (then three) children, he’s built a four-track studio at his home in Manchester, seen it get burgled, rebuilt it, started writing his own songs on keyboards and guitar, suffered the divorce of his parents and then found time for a few months drumming on a Stone Roses album too.
From John Squire Interview 18 May 1997 - Sunday Mail, Scottish Daily Record: "When he left, the chemistry just wasn't the same," he said.
From 13 June 2007 - XFM Manchester Session Interview John Squire said: Whilst making the second album, it was like we were lost at sea, we didn’t have a business manager, we didn’t have any kind of management really.
Doug Goldstein got involved – the Guns ‘N Roses manager – and the band were a little bit unsure about whether to go for that and Ian and Reni had a row about it and maybe it expanded from that issue, I’m not sure. Ian came to me and Mani and told us that Reni had quit the night after this big row and said he wouldn’t work with again anyway. This was a couple of weeks before the tour was due to start and I could see in Ian’s eyes that there was no turning back from that point and I think that was really the last nail in the coffin for the band. It was never the same after that moment. I realised I was facing a choice in a way; that I could either do the tour without the drummer or the tour without the singer, and that was no contest.
From April 1995 - The Guitar Mag Feature: Reni said: "Possibly. Personally, I'm sick of underachieving. I've written my own stuff, my problem is finishing it. The last few years I've been learning the guitar; I'm a very basic strummer but I just can't help writing songs. In fact my drumming suffered 'cause I was always working on songs on my 4-track at home. I've got a keyboard and a guitar and you can play those at home whereas you can't play drums - at least not where I live 'cause it would annoy the neighbours. I've been working on some Gang Starr loops that I've put stuff over that sound great. I could develop those ideas. If it takes us this long to record another album I'll have my solo LP out first."
Bootleg: One Generation Under A Groove (1995, Will Odell said ''There is a rumour that these remixes were done by Reni himself - I bloody hope not.'') - (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell) CD / Tape
Bootleg: One Generation Under A Groove (FF)
Fools Gold (All That Glitters Mix) 11.16
She Bangs The Drums (Brooklyn Bridge Mix) 8.14
I Wanna Be Adored (Thought Process Mix) 7.00
Your Star Will Shine (Outer Limits) 7.04
Waterfall (Mellow Submarine) 12.42
Love Spreads (Flower Power Mix) 13.20
Shoot You Down (Democratic Dog's Mix) 8.48

30 March 1995 - Doug Goldstein steps down from managing the band.
Notes: A mutual decision that Doug no longer manages the band. Steve 'Adge' Atherton steps in to manage the upcoming tour.

31 March 1995 - Ian recruits a new drummer.
Notes: Apparently the next day Reni phoned Brown: “I need to get down to rehearsal early so that me and Mani can rehearse, and you and John can come down later.”
Brown replied, “I've done what you told me to do last night."
“What do you mean?” asked Reni.
“You told me to get another drummer, so I have," said Brown.

01 April 1995 - Robbie Jay Maddix joins The Stone Roses
Notes: Robbie 'The Jay' Maddix was born in 1970 in London, he joins the band aged 25. Steve 'Adge' Atherton, initially, asked Robbie to come jam with the band, he was then asked to join the group for the upcoming tour. Steve had known Robbie for over five years.
He played his first gig in gospel church services before moving to Manchester, aged 12.
He was one of eight children and studied at Arden College. One of his brothers was a failed boxer who had to quit because of a detached retina. Another, named Ozzy, was the area manager of Top Man in Manchester while other brothers and sisters worked in the catering industry. Two sisters were living in the USA and his father was involved in property and lived in Connecticut at the time of Robbie joining the band.
Robbie Maddix was given the nickname 'The Jay' by Ian Brown. The Jay's drumming C.V. included Hot Chocolate's Errol Brown, Ruby Turner, Double Trouble, Joe Roberts, The Rebel MC and apparently Simply Red (Future guitarist, Aziz Ibrahim, also played with Simply Red circa 1987/1988). Robbie was also in a Manchester band with Aziz, "Gina Gina".
Robbie was also a dance/house music remixer in the late 80's/early 90's.
He did mixes for Terence Trent D'Arby.
Robbie was credited for producing artists inluding Atlantic Starr, Shabba Ranks and Queen Latifah.
Robbie played with Andy Williams (keyboardist) on the circa 1992 Errol Brown tour.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed "I was asked by the then tour manager, Steve Adj, to meet John, Ian and Mani at a rehearsal room in Manchester. I never knew any of them before that. The mood of the camp was sad, until they heard me play. At that point they knew the Roses could carry on."
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: “We were feeling closer, Robbie came in and he was fired up, full of beans. He learned about our past and became a full-on member. He fitted perfectly.”
From 01 May 1995 Geffen Records 'For Immediate Release' press newsletter.
Original drummer Alan 'Reni' Wren resigned and was replaced by Robbie J. Maddix, former drummer in Rebel MC & Double Trouble and a dance/house music remixer. As with the other bandmembers, "Robbie Jay" grew up in Manchester, England. Born in London, one of eight children, he played first in gospel church services before moving north when he was 12 years old. After studying at Arden College, he quickly gained a reputation as a top drummer in the U.K. particularly for soul/pop/dance artists. Besides Rebel MC, he's drummed for Ruby Turner and Errol Brown, and also done remixing for Terence Trent D'Arby.
From February 1996 - Rhythm Magazine, Interview with Robbie Maddix by Pat Reid:
Robbie Maddix" How did I land it? You mean with the best band in the country?" Robbie Maddix is completely unfazed by the question of how he got to replace Reni in one of the hottest bands in the land. "It's the ear," he decides. "I'm pretty quick. Through production and being able to arrange I play bass, keyboards and guitar pretty well, so I know parts and how parts are supposed to be played. I've known Steve Abbott - he's the tour manager - for about six years. When he was recording with the Roses Reni disappeared for a while, so they were thinking of maybe having to call someone at that point."...By the time work was completed on The Second Coming in '94, Robbie was working with rap artists in America. "I came back over, and at the end of March I got a call. I was in London to do another production and they wanted me to have a meeting. I came back, went down to a rehearsal room and met 'em. We just started having a jam, and it seemed to work." Over the weekend, Robbie had taken care to learn the Roses tracks 'Daybreak' and 'Breaking Into Heaven'. "I just hammered them two and it started to work. We rehearsed and put it together in eight days and it was away. Started touring in April, straight away, went all over Europe - Milan, Rome, Barcelona, all them places. Went over to the States, San Francisco and all that. Came back, did Ireland, the Feile Festival, and a few gigs in Helsinki, then went to Japan and Australia after that, and we're here."..."It wasn't really 'session', but everyone I did always went back. In one season I'd do Rebel MC, Vivian McKeone, Errol Brown, The Christians… I'd do the videos, the live touring, the promotion. I'd always be the drummer for maybe that album or two albums or three tours. With all the bands I think I maybe toured four times with all of them, so I wasn't like an enormous guy on the scene. For one, I lived in Manchester anyway; for two, I was never on the Session Connection part of the scene, so it was like word of mouth, and folks who I knew through production who wanted me to maybe go on the road with them."

TV - April 1995 - MTV announce Reni has left The Stone Roses.
Video Bootleg: TV Appearances Compilation (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Running Time approx: 90mins. VHS Video Originally Priced: £16.00, DVD £18) Video (PAL, NTSC) - Running Time (Approx): 80 mins (TV appearences) / 30 mins (Manchester 85) - Ian and John interview 1988 - Elephant Stone / Waterfall on The Other Side Of Midnight show, 1989 / I Wanna Be Adored (Manchester Hacienda, February 1989) - Very short Reni interview (Backstage, Hacienda) - Sugar Spun Sister (Hacienda) / She Bangs The Drums (Slo-Mo Promo) / Longish Ian and John interview, 1989 / She Bangs The Drums (Blackpool Promo) / Rapido Interview (uncut), October 1989 / Fools Gold on TOTP (November 1989) / Made Of Stone (Late Show - Power Cut, November 1989) / Fools Gold (Promo) / Elephant Stone (Promo) / Fools Gold mimed on Satellite TV, and interview with all four Roses / One Love (Promo) / I Wanna Be Adored (Promo) / Waterfall (OSM - improved quality version, but only half the performance) / Love Spreads (Promo) / Ten Storey Love Song (Promo) / Short MTV Interview / News on MTV of Reni leaving / Love Spreads (Feile Festival, August 1995) - Breaking Into Heaven (Feile Festival) / Recording Love Spreads live version for the Help! Album / Begging You (Promo) / Interview with Mani after leaving the Roses / Sally Cinnamon (Promo) / Love Spreads (US Promo, unedited) / Ten Storey Love Song (Unedited promo, without special effects!) / Love Spreads (Finished US Promo) / Love Spreads on Beavis and Butthead / Love Spreads on Red Cross Commercial

April 1995 - Reni is interviewed by the press outside his house in Whalley Range, Manchester
Notes: The Stone Roses' lawyer John Kennedy is now working out a settlement for Reni, who is expected to receive a five-figure sum.
See April 1995 - NME Magazine, News - He bans the drums in Media for the article.

1995 - Begging You Single News / Monmouth Studio Session, Wales
Notes: From unknown article ''They plan to release a radically remixed and extended version of the album track 'Begging You' later in the year.''
From Simon Spence's Book 'War & Peace': Robbie Maddix said "“So we’re in Monmouth, we’re bored. The record company asked if they could do mixes. So straight away Ian, said Robbie you’ve got to do a mix. I did have a feeling – I don’t think John would like me to. I did it and it was funky as hell. But I wanted John to put guitar on it, just to have fun with it. Mani heard it, said wicked, kind of like Fools Gold, same kind of thing, funky drummer kind of thing. John came in and he didn’t like it. They weren’t used to doing remixes. When John came in, he didn’t say it was good or bad, he just made a face. I thought, I don’t want to do something you don’t like but to be honest that’s what happens with a remix. He didn’t really get what the process of doing a remix was for. I think he thought I was doing what I think the Roses should sound like. I think he was bit put out.”"

08-18 April 1995 - The Second Coming Tour Rehearsals, Manchester
Notes: Apparently Robbie Maddix had only ten days of rehearsals prior to the tour. A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''I had settled in well with everyone and we were coming together as a band. Remember, we had only had 8 days of rehearsals, so it was always gonna take time to gel properly as a unit.''
From 13 May 1995 - Melody Maker Magazine, Interview by Dave Simpson:
Did Maddix know all the songs? "I knew Fools Gold. I can't say to you, 'Oh, yeah, I always had the first album.' I don't buy albums for a start."
Uh-huh. So what happened then? Did the new line-up gel instantly? "Pretty much so. John was in first. We sat down and had a chat. Then Ian got involved."
MANI: "I drove down the rehearsal room. I came out of the car and the three of them were playing Daybreak. I was still outside and it sounded f***in' enormous. I walked into the room and it was just there, straight away. You can't put the brakes on it man, no matter what happened. It's gonna happen, innit?"

10 April 1995 - Reni's 31st birthday

The Second Coming Tour 1995.

The Second Coming U.K. Tour Poster Read '...we apologise for the break in transmission...the show goes on...'

John Squire Gear - Guitar
Gibson Les Paul 1959 Sunburst Standard Guitar (previously owned by Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielson)
Notes: From June 1997 - The Guitar Magazine: By the time Second Coming was underway Squire’s main guitar was a sunburst ’59 Les Paul Standard (see Roses cover feature in July ’95 TGM, vol 5 no7) which was previously owned by (rock ‘n’roooooll!) Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielson, ‘The neck looked unplayable at first, it was so chipped – like a map of the Swedish coast.’ Squire grins. ‘But it sounded really nice. I don’t know too much about guitars 0 I could easily be sold a fake – but I know when one sound special.’ When the Roses business affairs were liquidated, the ’59 sunburst was sold as, strictly speaking, it was band property; ‘I think it’s in Japan now; in a bank vault, probably.’

Gibson Les Paul 1959 Honeyburst Standard Guitar
Gibson Les Paul blood red sunburst Guitar (set up for Love Spreads slide (high strings and tension))

Fender Jazz 1978 Bass Guitar
From Official Aziz Ibrahim Youtube Channel 28 August 2021 - Blood Red Burst Stone Roses Gibson Les Paul Video "The Stone Roses during Second Coming owned two Gibson Les Pauls. The 1959 Honeyburst Standard is much talked about and became my main guitar when I joined and during Ian Brown's solo career. But the other Les Paul is not much talked about. It is a blood red sunburst Gibson Les Paul. You can see it on live videos from 1995 when John Squire was still in the band and with me at Reading 96' or earlier festivals. It was set up for slide (high strings and high tension) and used for 'Love Spreads' so I did the same. The unusual things were: 2 unmatched tops, ebony fretboard instead of rosewood, quite heavy and a beautiful strange deep red burst. There was a Japanese luthier that worked at Gibson at the time that made this one but I'm not sure of the date..."
From Official Aziz Ibrahim Youtube Channel 21 August 2021 - "1978 Fender Jazz Bass old Stone Roses Guitar" Video "When I joined the Stone Roses in 1996 I inherited pretty much all the guitars, amps and pedals that were left behind by John Squire or they were owned by the band collectively. That included the 1959 Gibson Les Paul! One that is overlooked and not talked about much is this 1978 Fender Jazz Bass that the band told me belonged to John Squire and was one of his main writing tools. I used this bass when I recorded My Star, Corpses etc and Unfinished Monkey Business as well as songs on albums that followed during Ian Brown solo career. Hope you enjoy the insight."

Ian Brown - Vocals
Gary 'Mani' Mounfield - Bass Guitar & Acoustic Guitar
Rickenbacker El Dorado Bass (Modified/Custom)
Electric Gibson Bass guitar EB3 (Serial No: 950258) (Used on the second coming recordings too)
Notes: From rareandsigned.com: Price: £8,500.00...Here is Mani's own, original Electric Gibson Bass guitar owned and used by Mani. The Stone Roses. It is a rare vintage GIBSON guitar EB3 ( serial No 950258) 4 String Bass. It was used by Mani on The Second Coming album. It is signed by Mani (Gary Mounfield). He has written on the rear of the guitar "as used on the second coming daybreak & tears enjoy and use it wisely love and respect the legendary stone roses bass master Mani ". Mani used this rare Gibson bass on tour and in the studio. He also recorded his bass sections on The Stone Roses, THE SECOND COMING album in 1994. This guitar is accompanied by A 6x4 full colour photograph of MANI holding the guitar...
Mesa/Boogie heads and cab rig (Same ones used on the second coming recordings)

Robbie 'The Jay' Maddix - Drums & Backing Vocals
From February 1996 - Rhythm Magazine, Interview with Robbie Maddix by Pat Reid: BY THE time Rhythm catches up with the Roses at the Liverpool Royal Court, Robbie is playing a Premier Signia with 8", 10", 14" and 16" toms, augmented by a 14" DW snare. "I'm endorsed by Zildjan and DW hardware. I change on a regular basis, I'm not a creature of habit. Sometimes I'll be using DW kit, sometimes it's a Signia; whatever takes my fancy, whatever colour's nice. I swap around; sometimes I use a 20" China Boy; sometimes I use 20", 12", 16"; sometimes I'll try and find piggybacks. It just depends on the mood. If I'm playing a big gig like Wembley, I'll be using really big cymbals mixed up with maybe a couple of splashes, but always 14" hi-hats, and maybe 10" hi-hats sometimes as spare. I've got X-hats… So I do different things; I use the hi-hat behind my head if I get tired sometimes. It's weird but I can actually play with my hand behind me, it's more comfortable. I get cramp from having to play cross-hand all the time, 'cos I play pretty powerful. Me technique isn't what you would call schooled. To get the sound and aggression I've got is just self-taught technique. I was taught a bit by Dave Hassell. I've lost his bloody number, but I'm going to be going back to Dave to get tuned up. That's where I'm at at the moment, trying to get my technique together. It's a bit powerful, the show is a bit long as well, and the numbers are a bit frantic. After a while it takes its toll so I sort of move the stuff around to compensate."...Robbie's Kit with a restless and acquisitive nature, Robbie has little of the brand loyalty that seems to come with the territory for the ahem, modern drummer. "I've wanted to get a few different kits on stage with different spec. At some point or another I'll maybe have three different kits on stage. I'd just change indiscriminately for different sounds. Every tour I like to change kits as a rule. One minute it'll be Premier, then a Yamaha, then it might be Sonor, then I might go to Ludwig. It depends on the gig, it depends on what kind of style I have or feel. I've got a lot of different styles."

19 April 1995 Wednesday - Rockefella (Rockefeller) Music Hall, Oslo, Norway
Soundcheck: Alone Again (Mani short bass soundcheck) (Love cover)
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Good Times / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Driving South / Made Of Stone / Love Spreads
Notes: Robbie Maddix debut show. Approx 1100 fans attended the show, 1200 capacity venue. Norwegian media criticised the show.
Rockefeller booking manager Roar Gulbrandsen told NME: “People had great expectations for this because it is more than five years since they last played. But people didn’t think it was very good...They had problems with the singer’s voice. Some people didn’t think he did a very good job. The sound wasn’t that good either. But it got groovy towards the end of the new drummer was good.”
Dave Simpson interviewed the band for 13 May 1995 - Melody Maker Magazine after the show. He apparently wrote a Stone Roses fanzine back in the day, unconfirmed if Until The Sky Turns Green (see 1989). The 02:00am Interview with Ian, Mani, John & Robbie Maddix after the Rockefella Music Hall show was published. The interview was originally scheduled for 16:00 then 20:00 then after the show at 00:00 but ended up going into 20 April early morning at around 02:00am.
See Media for April 1995 - NME Magazine Review.
See Media for 13 May 1995 - Melody Maker Magazine, Review and Interview by Dave Simpson.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed "My first gig was Oslo. We had been in rehearsal for eight days and the last two days were brilliant, the first gig couldn’t come quick enough. We got to soundcheck and all seemed quiet, a few fans outside and some crew. Ian opened the door backstage and it was mayhem, shouts of “Ian!” and camera flashes. There were so many press people, I was stunned into silence. Up to that point, there had been no press around or anyone from outside the Roses camp. Now the excitement started, we were buzzing before but now we knew the interest was high. Show time! We could hear the noise from the dressing room – “Roses, Roses!” Ian looked at John with this smile as if to say ‘they still love us’. Mani was in top form, with his shirt off, making everyone laugh. Finally we were on our first gig. I Wanna Be Adored went down well but the on-stage sound was terrible, and only got worse. I think it was the 5th or 6th song and I could see something was wrong with Mani. He just kept shaking his head, then he took off his bass and launched it into his bass amp. I couldn’t believe it. Then John, with the look of thunder in his face, took his guitar off and smashed it into his fender twins. That was our debut gig."
Bootleg: Rockefella Skunk () Audience Recording, Often mistagged as Soundboard or FM Recording.
Bootleg: Tape (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell)) Audience Recording
Bootleg: Tape (DAT Master)
Bootleg: Rockerfellar - CD-R

20 April 1995 - Photo Session, Stockholm, Sweden
Notes: The band arrived in Stockholm in the early hours on the tour bus.

20 April 1995 - Record Signing Session
Notes: Steve "Adge" Atherton co-organised the signing session.

20 April 1995 - The Palladium, Stockholm, Sweden
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Good Times / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Driving South / Made Of Stone / Love Spreads
Notes: Approx 1000 fans attended the show. The set was plagued with mistakes. Robbie struggled with some of the older songs. John uses a different guitar/sound for She Bangs The Drums and Ten Storey Love Song which he doesn't use again.
During Elizabeth My Dear the strings broke but John carried on anyway. Apparently discount coupons for the Radiohead show were given away in the crowd, Radiohead were playing the Gino venue on the same night.
The band were in Stockholm ten years to this date too, see April 1985.
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Second Grooving (Shot Of Salvation Records, Disc 1 Face: second grooving chapter 1 sos-020 shot of salvation s:o:s .Disc 1 Matrix: 22181M1 SOS-020 IFPI L602). Disc 2 Face: second grooving chapter 2 sos-021 shot of salvation s:o:s Disc 2 Matrix: 22180M1 SOS-021 IFPI L602) 2 CD - CD1 - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Good Times / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven - CD2 - Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Driving South / Made Of Stone / Love Spreads
Bootleg: Audience Recording - (Straight copy of Second Grooving silvers) - (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). CD Originally Priced:) 2 CD-R
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Stockholm Palladium (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "(Probably sourced from Second Grooving silvers)" Cassette Originally Priced: £3.00, Running Time (Approx): 75mins) Tape
Bootleg: Incomplete Audience Recording - Second Grooving (Catalogue Number: SEM183) - 2 CD-R
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Begging You At Stockholm (Fretlesswonder-003/4. Straight copy of Second Grooving silvers) - 2 CD-R
Bootleg: Nine Miles High (A PGP Production) (Sleeve has two soft toy cows in front of a stone roses poster) (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "" CD Originally Priced: £11.00, Running Time (Approx): 74mins, Cassette originally priced: £3.50) I Wanna Be Adored (Hacienda, 1989) / Elephant Stone (Rare mix) aka Elephant Stone 7inch Backwards / Ten Storey Love Song (28 December 1995 Thursday - Sheffield Arena) / Daybreak (Benicassim, 1996) / Tears (Whitley Bay, 1995) / Where Angels Play (Tokyo, 1989) / Sally Cinnamon (Luxor, Germany, 1989) / Sugar Spun Sister (1986 Chorlton Demo) / Going Down (1986 Chorlton Demo) / Mersey Paradise (Blackpool, 1989) / Fools Gold (Spike Island, 1990) / This Is The One (Manchester, 1988) / Begging You (Stockholm, 1995) / I Am The Resurrection (Leicester, 1995) - CD-R / Tape (Cassette - Side 1 - I Wanna Be Adored (Hacienda, 1989) / Elephant Stone (Rare mix) aka Elephant Stone 7inch Backwards / Ten Storey Love Song (28 December 1995 Thursday - Sheffield Arena) / Daybreak (Benicassim, 1996) / Tears (Whitley Bay, 1995) / Where Angels Play (Tokyo, 1989) - Side 2 - Sally Cinnamon (Luxor, Germany, 1989) / Sugar Spun Sister (1986 Chorlton Demo) / Going Down (1986 Chorlton Demo) / Mersey Paradise (Blackpool, 1989) / Fools Gold (Spike Island, 1990) / This Is The One (Manchester, 1988) / Begging You (Stockholm, 1995) / I Am The Resurrection (Leicester, 1995))

21 April 1995 - The Karen, Gothenburg (Goteborg), Sweden
Notes: * Date confused with May 1995 ? * Approx 1000 fans attended the show.
Day before Copenhagen show. John stays overnight in Gothernburg whilst all the other band members travel to Copenhagen.

22 April 1995 - Pakhus II (Pakhus 11), Copenhagen, Denmark
Soundcheck: Jam (with roadies on guitar) / I Want You Back (The Jackson 5 cover) (without John) / Unknown (without John) / Waterfall / Fools Gold / Jam (Ian on drums with crew member on guitar)
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Begging You / Fools Gold / Made Of Stone / I Am The Resurrection / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Driving South / Good Times / Love Spreads (attempt)
Notes: * Date sometimes confused with 05 May 1995 ? *
Approx 1200 tickets were sold. Pakhus 11 is a disused warehouse, surrounded by a construction site and wide shipping canal. John is late to the soundcheck.
Ian meets fans outside the venue after the soundcheck. Before the show the band were interviewed by NME & Les Inrocktuputibles in Room1108 at the "Sheraton Hotel".
See Media for 06 May 1995 - NME Magazine, Review by Andy Richardson.
The band were due on stage at 12, but only appeared on stage after 1am. Ian was wearing a brown shirt, John wore white. The stage has a foil backdrop.
Their was a few mistakes on the night.
John attempted Love Spreads, at least twice, but aborts. Mani, Maddix and Ian waited for John to try again. At the second attempt Mani fist bumped (punched) his bass in anger as John couldn't get the riff correct. John moves centre stage, Ian walks off followed by Mani & Robbie. John tries one more time but then takes off his guitar, holds it above his head and then slams it neck first into the floor. The neck is broke and the strings are snapped. John leaves the stage, there is no encore.
The tour was taking it's toll on the band. The shows so far saw John leading the way, giving The Jay the nod and plenty eye contact for fills and changes through the songs.
Date & notes taken from 06 May 1995 - NME Magazine article. *After The Karen, Gothenburg show.
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: What are your memories of the 1995 world tour? “We were erratic. We were poor in Copenhagen"

24 April 1995 - The Docks, Hamburg, Germany

25 April 1995 - Metropol, Nollendorfplatz 5, Berlin, Germany * Doors Open: 19:00 - Show Starts: 20:00 * Ticket Price: 26DM (Approx £13.50)
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope (attempt) / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Driving South / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Love Spreads
Notes: At least 900 people attended. The show was recorded by Sophie Muller. She would later use some footage for the Begging You promo video.
The set was plagued with mistakes. Robbie struggles and John plays some duff notes, his solos aren't as tight as future shows.
After the show Mani came to the barrier and met fans, signing and chatting about the show.
Eyewitness Report, Paul Rowley said: Roses at Berlin Metropol, April 1995. There was an eerie feel to the hall as I went in. No music playing, just people standing around talking. I think the guys on the mixing desk did manage to find a CD to play after a while. In any case it was a long wait before the Roses came on.
The crowd's patience was pushed to the limits and it was a relief when the Second Coming intro started. John came on with wild feedback. They then went into Adored, the sound was deafening and totally distorted. The acoustics at the Metropol are normally bad, but this was almost embarrassing. To top it all, Ian was totally out of tune during the first three songs, maybe he couldn't hear himself. John seemed to steer Robbie through the songs, he turned to him quite often to indicate changes. Robbie seemed to be more comfortable with the new songs and that's when the band started to rock. I remember Begging You was excellent. All in all, I'd say it was a disappointing gig. Ian's vocals spoilt it and he didn't seem to care. Sadly, like many British bands playing smaller venues in Europe, they seemed arrogant and didn't make an effort to win the crowd over. The highlights were John's solo on Driving South and Mani hanging around in front of the stage after the gig. He signed my ticket and was really friendly. The light show was good, but overall I'd say they were underrehearsed.
Bootleg: Audience Recording
Bootleg: Audience Recording - 24th April 1995 Berlin Metropolis (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "Very clean sound, all instruments/vocals clear. Minus mark is for hi-hats and cymbals sound fluctuating in places. A few seconds' gap in Ten Storey Love Song." Cassette Originally Priced: £3.00, Running Time (Approx): 80mins) Tape

26 April 1995 - The Paradiso (Paradiso Grote Zaal), Amsterdam, Netherlands
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Love Spreads / Good Times / I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South
Notes: Date is often incorrectly noted as 14 or 24 April 1995.
The bootleg Blow The Dam is a near complete recording but the sound is inferior compared to High Times In Dopeland.
High Times In Dope Land sleeve appears on the front cover of the May 1996 - Music Review Live! Britpop Invasion Volume 4 No.5, $3.25 magazine.
Bootleg: High Times In Dopeland (Skin Up 002 GEMA. Skin Up Records. Disc Matrix: UY09.**Musicom Int (95355226)) Audience Recording - Often mistagged as Soundboard or FM Recording. Incorrectly noted on the sleeve as '14 April 1995'. - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Love Spreads / Good Times / I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Made Of Stone /
Bootleg: Blow The Dam ('Hawk. ‎Most Trusted Name In Music.' Italian CD Pressing. CD Matrix: HAWK088 Catalog Number: HAWK088) Audience Recording - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Story Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Love Spreads / Good Times / I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South
Bootleg: 24 April 1995 - Amsterdam Paradiso (aka "Blow The Dam") (Probably a straight copy of 'Blow The Dam' silver CD) (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "" CD Originally Priced: £10.00, Tape Priced: £3 Running Time (Approx): 75mins) CD-R or Tape
Bootleg: Tape (noted as 14 April 1995 on the cover, uses Robbie Maddix band era photo. Handwritten on the sticker of the tape the date is noted, incorrectly, as 14/5/95)
Bootleg: Tape (TDK D90) Side 1 - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Love Spreads / Good Times - Side 2 - I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South

27 April 1995 Thursday - Luna Theatre, Brussels, Belgium * Doors Open: 20:00 *
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Love Spreads / Good Times / I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South
Notes:
From April 1995 - The Guitar Mag Feature: John Squire said: "To be honest, all I desire is to make enough money to make another record. I'd like to make a live album though, something that stands up against The Who's Live At Leeds or The Song Remains The Same. I really think we capture something live that we don't have in the studio."
Bootleg: The Song Remains The Same ("Ian and Mani smoking" on sleeve. 1995, Catalogue Number: HISP37 - Hispanola Records. Hispanola Records SRL, Box 2071, Luxemborg, Made In The EEC. Disc Matrix: (95181105) 13XCV440219-9-9) (Sleeve states ''Live in Europe, April 1995'') Audience Recording (Often mistagged as Soundboard or FM Recording) - Intro / I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak (Breaking Into Heaven is not mentioned on the sleeve but is included) / Your Star Will Shine (Acoustic) / Tightrope (Acoustic) / Elizabeth My Dear (fragment) / Love Spreads / Good Times / I Am The Resurrection / Beggin' You / Made Of Stone / Driving South
Bootleg: The Song Remains The Same ('John Squire playing guitar live' on the front of sleeve, Ian on the other page, white inside. Rear sleeve uses an image of Ian too. No Cat. No. except on the disc. Sleeve states ''Live in Europe 1995'. Disc is the same Hispanola Records "HISP37" as above, same pressing, same factory just a different sleeve. Sleeve was possibly Made In Japan, unconfirmed.)
Bootleg: The Song Remains The Same (This version incorrectly states ''Berlin Metropolis, Brussels, Belgium, 29th April 1995''. This is a copy of the above with an alternate rear sleeve and only a single "John Squire playing guitar live" page front insert) - CD-R
Bootleg: Brussels La Luna (aka "The Song Remains The Same", "Live In Europe") (Probably a copy of "The Song Remains The Same" silver CD) (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "" Tape Priced: £2.50 Running Time (Approx): 80mins) Tape
Video Bootleg: Amateur Audience Recording
Video Bootleg: Brussels / Atlanta / Newport Video (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Originally Priced: £15.00) Video (PAL, NTSC) - Running Time (Approx): 3.5 hours
27 April 1995 - Luna Theatre, Brussels, Belgium (Filmed from the audience balcony - steady with good close-ups...) - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Love Spreads / Good Times / I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South
04 December 1995 Monday - Newport Centre, Kingsway, Newport (Slightly shaky, from audience) - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
14 May 1995 - The Atlanta Midtown Music Festival, Georgia, U.S.A.(Filmed from side of audience, good vantage point, close ups, in daytime, so good lighting) I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Love Spreads / I Am The Resurrection
Bootleg Video: Death of The Roses (2 DVD-R, Footstomp Label. FSVD-059-1/2, Double Disc Contains Three Shows) - Complete Amateur Audience Video Recording
Bootleg Video: Brussels, Belgium 4.27'95 (DVD features Ian on stage with tambourine with a background of several images. The rear shows tracklist and Region 2 logo with Ian, Mani and John. The white label disc mentions 'Region ALL discs have all 8 flags set, allowing the disc to be played in any locale on any player. Under COOL, DRY conditions. ALL NTSC bb C-5101206'. I presume this was Made In Japan or U.S.A.) DVD-R

29 April 1995 - E-Werk, Cologne, Germany

May 1995 - The One Love Story
Notes: I remember it being advertised in music magazines, circa 1995, but had no idea what it meant. After some research it turns out that it is nothing more than confusing, drug fuelled 'Fan' made conspiracy. See Media for 'a related' article.

May 1995 - SOS Sound On Sound, Interview with Simon Dawson.
Notes: Article By Matt Bell, see Media for the complete article. From https://www.soundonsound.com/people/simon-dawson-recording-stone-roses-second-coming

M - May 1995 - The Stone Roses appear in Music Weekly, Mani and Ian are interviewed.
Notes: "Why do people get into smack? Because they've got fuck all to do. They've got 24 hours a day to kill."
"When the album was finished Geffen said, Nice one. Let's go to work. When you're not doing anything you're not aware of it. It's not someone else's opinion you think of. Geffen said, Go away and do it. That's the way it should be, you can't force it. You can't say, Shit, we took too long, we'll do something half-baked."
"What's tragic about making an album? Why complain? Tragic is hooked on valium on some council estate in Whitley Bay, it's not going on the telly playing music. Too many people wear that sort of attitude like a badge. It's not different being a pop star. You don't feel glamorous all the time. Being on a tour bus with a blocked chemical toilet stinking it out isn't glamorous."
Ian says if he wasn't a pop star he'd be a welder: "People always want stuff welded, don't they?" Mani says he'd get a job in Waitrose.

M - May 1995 - The Stone Roses appear in Spin Magazine
Notes: Simon Reynolds Interview in L.A., CA. Los Angeles enjoys its heaviest daily rainfall for a century during the interview. See Media for the article.

01 May 1995 Monday - Volkshaus, Zurich, Switzerland * Doors Open: 19:00 - Show Begins: 20:00 *
Notes: Promo poster indicated a sponsor from MTV 120 Minutes? I don't think the show was filmed though.

TV - 03 May 1995 - Cancelled TV Appearence
Notes: A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed We were booked to do a TV show in the afternoon, then gig later on. We got to the TV station on time and were led to the studio. On the way, Ian turned to this guy and said, “What did you say?” The guy looked shocked that Ian had heard him, and in broken English, tried to play it down, but Ian was not having any of it. “I heard you say ‘nigger’.” I can say I had never heard any racism in my career until then. I was stunned at this point, and before I could react, Ian was shouting, “Get this guy out of this building now. We won’t be performing until this guy is thrown out.” They took him away and told us that he was gone, only for Ian to spot the same guy 10 minutes later. “That’s the same guy. Right, we’re off.” Both Mani and John took their guitars off and we all walked away. The TV company begged us, but nothing doing. Turns out it was the producer’s son. It left a bad taste for the gig later on. Like Ian says, “Got no time for racists”

03 May 1995 Wednesday - Luna Theatre, Rome Art Palladium, Rome, Italy
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South /
Notes: Ian did not sound well. The entire band struggle in places. Their first tour in five years was taking it's toll on the band. Ian was missing verses, coughing and struggling (even more than usual) through the set.
On Daybreak Ian starts with the second verse. He excuses himself coughing during the first line of Tightrope.
Love Spreads sounds like John has his capo in the wrong place or his guitar is out of tune, he messed up a few times on the night.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''This was my worst gig in the Roses''
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Rome Art Palladium (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "Good mix - all instruments are well seperated, each part being very clear. Does distort slightly in the latter part of the recording, but only a slight glitch." Cassette Originally Priced: £2.50, Running Time (Approx): 70mins) Tape

05 May 1995 Friday - Pakhus 11, Copenhagen, Denmark
Notes: * Unconfirmed date see 22 April 1995 *

07 May 1995 Sunday - Aqualung, Madrid, Spain
Notes: Apparently the band sounded a lot better than the previous nights. Ian was still struggling but was getting better. A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''This was probably my best gig. I had settled in well with everyone and we were coming together as a band. Remember, we had only had 8 days of rehearsals, so it was always gonna take time to gel properly as a unit. We got the on-stage sound just right and John was on fire in soundcheck. During the gig, the guys kept looking at me, nodding their approval. As always, Ian was full of praise. That night, I felt a special feeling that I’ve not felt before or since that gig.''

08 May 1995 Monday - Presentando su ultimo disco 'Second Coming', Zeleste, Barcelona, Spain * Doors Open: 20:30 - The Stone Roses: 21:30 * Ticket Price: 2700 pts.
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South

09 May 1995 Tuesday - Le Transbordeur, Lyon, France
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South /
Notes: Ian is still struggling and The Jay still misses the beats.
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Lyon Le Transbordeur (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "Fades in/out, with slight distortion, but clean on the whole." Cassette Originally Priced: £2.00, Running Time (Approx): 80mins) Tape

11 May 1995 Thursday - Elysee Club, Montmartre, 72 Bld Rochechouart 75018, Paris, France * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: 142F, 4 Day Coach Holiday: £99.00
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South / Fool's Gold
Notes: After Fool's Gold Ian Brown said: ''This is the last one, we don't do encores.''. The band were a lot better, Ian's voice sounded better than previous nights too.
Tickets went on sale 25 February 1995 Thursday. Rock Music Live In Europe (Leger Travel Ltd.) organised a 4 day coach holiday from the U.K. to the show with prices starting from £99.00. The promo posters for the show headlined 'The Second Coming Has Arrived' 'Unmissable small club concert'
Bootleg: Audience Recording
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Paris Elysee Montmartre (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell)) CD *Driving South fades out and is missing Fool's Gold
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Paris Elysee Montmartre (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "Good, clean DAT recording - can't complain at all." Cassette Originally Priced: £3.00, Running Time (Approx): 80mins) Tape *Fool's Gold is missing.

The Stone Roses - May 1995 - The Complete Stone Roses Release Date
All songs written by John Squire & Ian Brown.
Label: Silvertone
Artwork: '' John Squire
Format: Double Vinyl. Catalog Number: ORE LP 535
Matrix A-Side: ORELP-535-A1 MA
Matrix B-Side: ORELP-535-B1
Matrix C-Side: ORELP-535-C1 MA
Matrix D-Side: ORELP-535-D1
Format: Cassette. Catalog Number: ORE C
Format: CD. Catalog Number: ORE CD
Format: 2 CD. Made In Japan. 21 June 1995 - BVCQ-640 2 CD. 01241-41561-2 Disc 1 Matrix: 2547-1-1 ALLIED DT *01241-41561-2* IFPI L561 ifpi 7711
Disc 2 Matrix: BODP-1 Bonus 3inch Mini CD. Tracklist noted as "01 I Am Without Shoes 02 Groove-On Black Magic Devil Woman "
So Young
Tell Me
Sally Cinnamon (7inch Mix)
Here It Comes
All Across The Sand
Elephant Stone (7inch Mix)
Full Fathom Five (7inch Mix)
The Hardest Thing In The World
Made Of Stone
Going Down
She Bangs The Drums (Single Mix) 3:44
12. Mersey Paradise
Standing Here
I Wanna Be Adored (7“ Version) 3:30
Waterfall (7“ Version) 3:38
I Am The Resurrection (7“ Version) 3:45
Where Angels Play
Fools Gold (7“ Version) 4:18
What The World Is Waiting For
Something's Burning (7“ Version) 3:38
One Love (7“ Version) 3:35
Limited Edition with 2 Track Bonus Disc Featuring Previously Unreleased Recordings. The mysterious recordings include I Am Without Shoes which was used for some 1988/1989 stage introduction tapes. I presume the track was recorded in early 1988 during the demo stages for She Bangs The Drums. The track was remixed a few times, see the 20th Anniversary Boxset and 20th Anniversary Single Re-Releases for the Untitled mixes. The track was probably remixed during the Made Of Stones Sessions and The Debut LP sessions too.
In the U.K the second track is titled Groove (Black Magic Devil Woman) where as the mini 3inch disc names the song Groove-On Black Magic Devil Woman. Probably an outtake from the Elephant Stone recording sessions (see January 1988) or a jam from the 1989 during the B-Sides recording session for the She Bangs The Drums single...I have no idea.
Elephant Stone (7inch Mix), Full Fathom Five (7inch Mix), The Hardest Thing In The World all credited as 'Produced by Peter Hook'. Contradicts the vinyl pressing which mentions Elephant Stone 7inch is produced by John Leckie, although Peter Hook is the correct credit for the production. Full Fathom Five is the Peter Hook version rather than the original John Leckie mix. If you reverse this version of Full Fathom Five you get one of the first Peter Hook mixes of Elephant Stone.
Format: 2 CD. Catalog Number: ORE CD
CD2
I'm Without Shoes
Groove (Black Magic Devil Woman)
Notes:

M - 13 May 1995 - The Stone Roses appear in Melody Maker Magazine, Review and Interview by Dave Simpson.
Notes: 19 April 1995 Wednesday - Rockefella Music Hall, Oslo, Norway Review, see Media for the article.

Second Coming U.S. Tour
14 May 1995 - The Atlanta Mid-Town Music Festival, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. * Line Up: Adam Ant, Del Amitri, Bush and more *
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Love Spreads / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: The bands first ever US appearence. Open air show.
During I Am The Resurrection Mani took off his bass guitar and threw it to the floor and left the stage due to sound technicalites and his finger injury. He had issues throughout the entire set.
Del Amitri and Adam Ant were also on the line up. I don't think The Stone Roses were headlining, the video footage looks like the band are on a smaller stage and it is still daylight (afternoon performance?).
Greg Lewerke managed the band during the American tour, he was also linked to the bands cancelled 1990 U.S.A tour too.
Atlanta, Georgia was also the birthplace of U.S rock sensation R.E.M.
Bootleg: Have You Heard This? () Audience Recording sourced from the Amateur Video Recording.
Bootleg Video: Amateur Audience Video Recording.
Bootleg Video: Death of The Roses (2 DVD-R, Footstomp Label. FSVD-059-1/2, Double Disc Contains Three Shows) - Complete Amateur Audience Video Recording
Video Bootleg: Brussels / Atlanta / Newport Video (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Originally Priced: £15.00) Video (PAL, NTSC) - Running Time (Approx): 3.5 hours
27 April 1995 - Luna Theatre, Brussels, Belgium (Filmed from the audience balcony - steady with good close-ups...) - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Love Spreads / Good Times / I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South
04 December 1995 Monday - Newport Centre, Kingsway, Newport (Slightly shaky, from audience) - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
14 May 1995 - The Atlanta Midtown Music Festival, Georgia, U.S.A.(Filmed from side of audience, good vantage point, close ups, in daytime, so good lighting) I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Love Spreads / I Am The Resurrection

16 May 1995 - Gaston Hall, Washington, DC, U.S.A. *Cancelled*
Notes: Apparently the show was rescheduled to the WUST Radio Music Hall as the venue's P.A. system was not good enough for the show. Initial Date taken from Geffen newsletter.

17 May 1995 - WUST Radio Music Hall, Washington, DC, U.S.A. * Cancelled *
Notes: Tickets for the previous night were going to remain valid for this show.
The show was cancelled as the venue wanted an 'all seated' show which would prevent the band creating the 'right vibe'.

18 May 1995 - Marine Terminal 28, Manne Terminals, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall (attempt) / Maddix and Mani Jam / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South
Notes: No support act. Sold Out Show. Apparently, all 3,500 Tickets for the show sold out in five minutes.
Between Waterfall attempts, Maddix and Mani play a short improvised jam.
Eyewitness Report from Fab Claxton said: ''I was at the Toronto show, and let me tell you, it shook my faith in the Roses. I'd waited patiently for years for them to get their act together and come to Canada, and when they finally did, I wished they'd stayed in England. The doors opened HOURS before the band took the stage, which wouldn't have been so bad if there'd been an opening act. At least they played great tunes over the loudspeaker. Anyway, when the Roses finally decided to grace us with their presence, the sound was horrible. So horrible, in fact, that Ian stopped Waterfall halfway through because he couldn't hear himself. That was the first (and last) time I'd never seen a professional band stop a song and start again. I felt embarassed for them, which is strange, 'cause Ian didn't seem to care one bit. In fact, during the chorus to She Bangs The Drums, Ian didn't even bother to sing. He just stalked around the stage shaking his tambourine. It was the most bizarre thing I'd ever seen. Here was a professional singer in the greatest band in the history of the world, standing in front of a few thousand adoring fans, and he can't be arsed to sing the chorus to his own song. Which is just as good, because the other twelve songs that he did manage to sing were a shambles. No matter how cool Ian Brown is (and let's face it - he's pretty cool), he's not much of a singer on the best of nights. And this was not one of his best nights. Keep in mind that before the show, I was walking on air. In just a few hours, I was about to see my favourite band. Every single person that I talked to at the show felt exactly the same way. But as we all filed out of the venue after the lights came back on, murmurs of "disgrace" and "I can't believe we waited four years for that" could be heard all around. What a massive, massive letdown.''
Bootleg: Audience Recording (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "Crisp, and great sound balance. Volume jumps a bit to start with, but that soon goes. Great sounding." Cassette Originally Priced: £3.00, Running Time (Approx): 80mins) Tape

May 1995 - Canada Radio Session
Notes: Interview

1995 - Ian Brown meets photographer Fabiola Quiroz
Notes: Ian meets his future wife. They begin dating.

20 May 1995 - Manhattan Centre, Ballroom, 311 W 34th Street, New York City, NY, U.S.A. * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: $16.50
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South / Fools Gold
Notes: The bands intro tape was '1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be) by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Simon Reynolds slated the performance with a mixed review in 10 June 1995 - Melody Maker Magazine, see Media for the article.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''We had been given mixed reviews, so Geffen the record company were worried that we might not go down too well in the States. We were really nervous because we knew how important playing well in the States was. We took extra time at soundcheck and Mani kept the mood light with his jokes and stories. I can’t remember much of the gigs, but I know we smashed it. Everyone was buzzing. First into the dressing room was Steve Atherton, whipping his fingers together – “That was wicked.” Before that, we were unsure so we were quiet, but that was the news we were waiting for. I can say that Mani, Ian and John love performing and putting in the best performance they can, always. I will also say that Mani, Ian and John probably won’t feel that level of performance again until they reform. There is a special chemistry between those guys. I don’t know if they know it, but I know it.''

21 May 1995 Sunday - Avalon Club, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. * Doors Open: 18:00 *
I Wanna Be Adored / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South
Notes: Ian and John come in at the wrong times on Waterfall. Robbie is still struggling with the timing, fills, missed beats and starts.
Bootleg: Stoned Kids (1995, Pressed In Uruguay, Boston Tea Party, Groove Factory Records, Cat. No. RUCD 014) Silver Factory Pressed CD - Audience Recording
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Boston Avalon Club (aka "Stoned Kids") (Probably a straight copy of "Stoned Kids" silver CD) (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "" Cassette Originally Priced: £3.50, CD: £11 Running Time (Approx): 75mins) CD / Tape

22 May 1995 - Webster Hall, New York City, NY, U.S.A.
I Wanna Be Adored / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South / Fools Gold
Notes: Fools Gold was apparently played whilst the band had a break, was this an encore?. A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''We had been given mixed reviews, so Geffen the record company were worried that we might not go down too well in the States. We were really nervous because we knew how important playing well in the States was. We took extra time at soundcheck and Mani kept the mood light with his jokes and stories. I can’t remember much of the gigs, but I know we smashed it. Everyone was buzzing. First into the dressing room was Steve Atherton, whipping his fingers together – “That was wicked.” Before that, we were unsure so we were quiet, but that was the news we were waiting for.''

Radio/TV- May - Love Spreads is used as the soundtrack to the Red Cross Commerical
Notes: The Red Cross commerical only lasted approx 30 seconds but gained the band some attention, especially through radio play.

TV - 23 May 1995 - Late Night Show, New York City, NY, U.S.A. *Cancelled*
Notes: David Letterman appearence is cancelled.

23 May 1995 - Chicago Festival, New World Music Theatre, Tingley Park, Chicago, IL, U.S.A * Supporting: Duran Duran *
I Wanna Be Adored / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South
Notes: The band was the fourth out of seven at the festival, Duran Duran also played. Ian met Simon Le Bon and the band ater the show.
The event was organised by a local radio station. The set was cut short due to sound technicalities. Ian made several mistakes, as did other members of the bad. I Am The Resurrection did not carry on after the breakdown, timing in less than five minutes.
Mani says over the mic 'Not bad for a band that can't hear fuck all on stage man !' Bootleg usually dated as "02 May 1995"
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Faraway Reni! (1995/6, Made In Japan, 3D Reality 'Rare Recordings By Your Favourite Artists', Cat. No. 3D-SR-043. Disc face: faraway!! 3D-SR-043 '3D Reality' P & C 1995 Real Stereo System. Matrix: 600787X 3D-SR-043 IFPI L602 . (Plastic Ring:) IFPI IC02) (A mystery surrounds the 3D Reality catalogue as it includes Cat. No. 3D-SR-044 New Rose. I have never seen or know anyone who has owned this release before.) Intro - I Wanna Be Adored / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Chicago (aka "Faraway Reni!") (Straight copy of Faraway Reni! CD.) (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "Obviously an outdoor gig, the sound (esp the treble) swirls in and out quite often, and the bass is too soft. You can also hear some annoying girls messing about. When sound is stable though, it is very clean sounding." Cassette Originally Priced: £2.00, CD: £10 Running Time (Approx): 50mins) Tape

24 May 1995 - Trocadero Theatre, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
I Wanna Be Adored / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South /
Notes: Sold out show.

26 May 1995 - Pointfest Festival, Pointfest 3, Riverport Ampitheatre, Maryland Heights, MD, U.S.A.
Notes: 20,000 festival capacity.

27 May 1995 - World Music Theatre, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Notes: Unconfirmed, could be an incorrect date for the ''23 May 1995'' show.

29 May 1995 - Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / I Want You Back (The Jackson 5 cover) / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone
encore: Driving South / Fools Gold
Notes: Initially the show was booked for a smaller venue, 1,200 capacity, due to popular demand. The venue was changed for the Palladium, 3,500 capacity.
I Want You Back is just Mani playing the bassline riff with Ian on tambourine and Robbie Jay joining in briefly whilst John is changing and retuning his guitar.
John makes a few mistakes throughout the set. Robbie still struggles and sounds under-rehearsed.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''We got there early – about 11 am – checked into the hotel and were told that there was a swimming pool on the roof. I looked at Ian and he knew what I was thinking (big spliff by the pool) so we dropped our bags on a trolley and headed for the roof. When we got there, we couldn’t believe what we were seeing. Some girls who we knocked back the night before had caught a plane, booked into the same hotel and were in the open air hot tub before we even arrived. Ian looked at me, “No way the Jay, are you having that?” We were on such a high from the night before that behaving like rock stars was the last thing on our minds. Having four girls before breakfast didn’t seem real somehow, so without a word we checked into our rooms, had some breakfast and built a spliff Bob Marley would have been proud of. ''
''That night, John’s playing was as good as it gets. He really shone that night. The stage was quite big and he worked every inch of it. Mani and myself just laid the foundation and Mr Squire conquered all. At times, Ian stopped singing. After the gig, I asked him if he missed any cues. “No the Jay, the sound was so mighty that I couldn’t sing. I just wanted to listen to this mighty sound.”
In May John secretly organised a vocal coach for Ian. Ian had been missing notes onstage from the start of the tour. Robbie The Jay Maddix said “It was suggested Ian could do better, but nobody dare tell him”
Brown was led to believe the coach was just a friend of a friend who liked the band and was pleasedby the offers of honey-and-lemon drinks to soothe his throat and by the novel idea of doing avocal warm-up before gigs. The charade was exposed before a showcase gig in Los Angeles at
the Hollywood Palladium. Brown kicked open the dressing room and confronted Squire. Robbie said “I saw the fear in John, not that he was going to get assaulted, but that he’d let Ian down, a bit of a no-no," Squire told Brown it was Maddix who’d hired the vocal coach. Brown was furious, kicking out at doors and swearing why had Robbie gone behind his
back? “I’m stood there, like, ‘What do I say?"’ said Maddix. “D0 I say,
‘Look, John did it?’ I looked at John, he looked at me, I looked at Ian and didn't say anything. Ian said, ‘He's got to go’.”
Mani broke his finger after the show. A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''Everyone was nervous because of what happened when we were in L.A. Mani broke his finger, punching some guy who had nicked some of our ‘Bob’ and wouldn’t give it back''
Bootleg: Audience Recording - LA Palladium (aka "Hollywood Palladium") (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "A bit too bassy, but turn up the treble and turn the bass right down and it sounds quite good, no noise, although the guitar is a bit quiet." Cassette Originally Priced: £3.00, CD: £11 Running Time (Approx): 65mins)
(17 Track CD-R - Intro / I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall - I Want You Back (The Jackson 5 cover) / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear (Intro cut from tape flip) / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / encore: Driving South / Fools Gold / 'The End')
(Tape - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads)
Bootleg: Audience Recording *missing the last three songs.
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Tape (D3 Cassette Master)

31 May 1995 Wednesday - The Fillmore Club, 180 S Geary St., San Francisco, California, U.S.A * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £18.50 *
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South /
Notes: No support act. One of the light riggings set on fire during Daybreak, the band carried on playing. Fools Gold was on the set list but wasn't played due to Mani's previous injury on his finger.
The promo poster displays a green Genash statue.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''Ian decides he’s hiring a convertible BMW because we had a day off before the gigs. The whole Roses camp goes into panic mode. For those who don’t know, Ian is not a bad driver but he can be a bit careless sometimes. In San Francisco, with all the steep hills, and they drive on the wrong side of the road, so it seemed like a disaster waiting to happen. Everyone was nervous because of what happened when we were in L.A. Mani broke his finger, punching some guy who had nicked some of our ‘Bob’ and wouldn’t give it back, so we weren’t sure if we were doing the gig. The day passed without any dramas.''
''Mani said nothing was going to stop him from playing so we got ready. In the dressing room before the gig, Mani was in pain. I couldn’t believe that he was even considering playing, but as I said, Mani loves performing. John was really concerned – he said, “What if it gets worse and you do more damage?” but Mani wasn’t having any of it. “We’re playing tonight. End of.” Mani soldiered through the pain and Ian met his wife the next day. John had a terrible accident and broke his collarbone while he was out cycling, so we will always remember San Francisco for one reason or another.''
Matt said: '' Ian was wearing some kind of funky kung-fu outfit and kept jumping up and down. I was half expecting him to start kicking things.'' '' One of the other things I remember about the show is that their lighting rig caught on fire during the ‘Daybreak’ solo. Squire was playing the solo and yelling at some guy offstage to come do something about the fire. I think it was his guitar tech that ended up running onto the stage and putting out the fire with a fire extinguisher or something. And of course, I remember thinking "wow, this guitar solo sure is going on for a long time".'' ''To my surprise, Ian Brown actually came out, but only to announce to the crowd that they couldn't do an encore because Mani's finger was busted.''
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Filmore Club (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "Muffled, but mostly very clean with nice bass. If you were being picky you would say the vocals are a bit distant. Slight distortion nearer the end." Cassette Originally Priced: £2.50, Running Time (Approx): 80mins) Tape
Bootleg: CD (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell)) Audience Recording *missing the last three songs
Bootleg: Doses For Roses - CD-R (Chris Steinmetz source. First generation copy of DAT Master) Audience Recording

02 June 1995 - John Squire cracks his collarbone in four places after falling off a hired mountain bike in San Francisco
Notes: The band were forced to cancel their Japanese tour and Glastonbury appearence too. He was rushed into Marin County General Hospital where his collarbone was to be rebroken and reset (an X-Ray can be seen on the U.K Tour Poster). John opted for Morphine instead. John Squire’s injury was worse than first thought and would result in surgery, see 12 June 1995.
The band flew home, John and Steve 'Adge' Atherton fly back together on 06 June 1995.
John had begun to meet with Geffen, on his own without the band, having struck up a close relationship with a young woman (Susanne Filkin, The Stone Roses' A&R representative at Geffen America) at the label.
See Media for the June 1995 - NME Magazine article.
From 2001 I Am Without Shoes Exclusive Mani Interview: > IAWS: John Squire stated in an interview that when he returned to the Roses after his bike crash you were “disinterested”. Is that fair? > Mani: What, me personally? > IAWS: Yes. > Mani: Well, to me, he was disinterested, some of those shows we did… > IAWS: I know, I’ve seen the videos. > Mani: I don’t know, when other people aren’t showing much of an interest and you’ve got people with their own agendas it is pretty hard, so I probably was uninterested at times, yes.
From June 1995 - NME Magazine: “I broke mine in the past,” Roses singer Ian Brown told NME, empathising with the guitarist. “Twice. Once I fell off a scooter and once I fell off a mate’s shoulders. After four weeks I was that impatient with it – ‘cos they strap you up under your arms like a figure of eight – I tried to take it off and it went and cracked again. I had to have another six weeks strapped up on top of that.”

1995 - Casey Brown is born.
Notes: Ian's son is born.
From 05 February 1998 - City Life Magazine: Ian said: ‘I had my second baby in ’95,’ he eventually says. ‘My kid’s (John Squire) known me since I was six and he wasn’t even interested in setting eyes on my second son. If you don’t think about my kids, I don’t wanna know you. I’m right over any bitterness. I just think he’s a grown man that turned into a pure baby. He’s just empty.’

N - 1995 - Ian Brown ends his current relationship, with the mother to his two sons Casey & Frankie Brown
Notes: Ian Brown returned to live with his parents.

05 June 1995 - Factory Hall, Sapporo, Japan *Cancelled*
Notes: This and the rest of the Japanese dates were rescheduled.
Mani's finger was broken in L.A. (29 May 1995) and John had fractured his collarbone whilst cycling in California (31 May 1995).
The band's equipment had already been freighted to Japan, and had to be recalled.
A media statement also noted "Japan Tour Postponement...The Stone Roses thank the Japanese fans for their loyalty and petience whilst John recovers from his accident and we sincerely apologise for any inconvenience to you..."
07 June 1995 - Club Citta, Kawasaki, Japan * Doors Open: 18:00 - Show Starts: 19:00 * Ticket Price: Y6,500 (Resceduled)
Notes: Resceduled to 11 September 1995. Original black and white promo poster includes a photo from January 1995 with Reni.
08 June 1995 - Club Citta, Kawasaki, Japan * Doors Open: 18:00 - Show Starts: 19:00 * Ticket Price: Y6,500 *Cancelled*
Notes: Original black and white promo poster includes a photo from January 1995 with Reni.
10 June 1995 - Century Hall, Nagoya, Japan *Cancelled*
12 June 1995 - Budokhan, Tokyo, Japan * Doors Open: 18:00 - Show Starts: 19:00 * Ticket Price: Y6,500 (Resceduled) (Approx £25? in 1995)
Notes: Resceduled to 12 September 1995. Original black and white promo poster includes a photo from January 1995 with Reni.
13 June 1995 - Budokhan, Tokyo, Japan * Doors Open: 18:00 - Show Starts: 19:00 * Ticket Price: Y6,500 (Resceduled)
Notes: Resceduled to 12 September 1995. Original black and white promo poster includes a photo from January 1995 with Reni.
14 June 1995 - Kousei Nenkin Kaikan, Osaka, Japan * Doors Open: 18:15 - Show Starts: 19:00 * Y6,500 *Cancelled*
16 June 1995 - Yubin Chokin, Hiroshima, Japan *Cancelled*
17 June 1995 - Sun Palace, Fukuoka, Japan *Cancelled*
19 June 1995 - Sun Palace, Osaka, Japan * Doors Open: 18:15 - Show Starts: 19:00 * Ticket Price: Y6,500 *Cancelled*

12 June 1995 - John Squire undergoes an operation.
Notes: John saw former Manchester United physiotherapist Jim McGregor who confirmed, after succesful surgery, it would take between six and eight weeks for the guitarist to recover. John undergoes surgery at Manchester's Wythenshawe Hospital to realign his collarbone - a steel plate and six pins are inserted across the bone. Glastonbury is cancelled.

21 June 1995 - John Squire donates a new clothing design for Warchild's Pagan Fun Wear fashion show, Saatchi gallery, West London
Notes: While recovering, Squire designs a piece of clothing for Warchild's Pagan Fun Wear fashion charity show. His contribution is a skimpy bikini with the cherub and chevrons from the ‘Love Spreads’ sleeve that fetches £600. Pulp's Jarvis Cocker designs a pair of shoes too for the cause.

21 June 1995 - The Complete Stone Roses Japanese Release Date
CD BVCG-640, Y2,500 Yen.
From Japanese promo poster included the notes ''...Bonus CD 1. I'm Without Shoes 2. Groove On Black Magic Devil Woman''

*Cancelled* 24 June 1995 Saturday - Glastonbury Festival (of comtempoary performing arts), Pilton, Somerset, 25 Year Anniversary 1970-1995 *Cancelled* Advance Only Ticket Price: £65 (includes camping, car parking etc) £85 (includes Caravans or Camper Vans) * Support Act(s): P.J. Harvey, Jamaraqui, Jeff Buckley, Everything But The Girl etc.
Notes: In the April NME they advertisted The Stone Roses as headliners. Cancelled as John broke his collarbone, falling off his bicycle, during the bands stay in America. The Japanese dates were cancelled but the festival appearence was cancelled at the last minute. Pulp stepped in and shot to stardom.
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: We were gutted about not headlining Glastonbury [due to John Squire sustaining a broken collarbone in a cycling accident]. But we could see the future.
Eavis said: "I didn’t quite believe the story of John Squire’s injury to be honest. I think there was another problem going on there. I think there was more going on than just the collarbone incident. I think the band were falling out at that point and the broken shoulder came at the same time. Jarvis [Cocker] then obviously came in (with Pulp) and did a good show. And that was really the last big thing Pulp did."
From 31 May 2008 Saturday 00:50 The Guardian Newspaper article, by Tim Jonze: How did you feel when the Roses had to pull out? Pretty gutted. We were gonna headline to tens of thousands and .... it didn't happen. But Pulp had their big moment, standing in for us, which was good. I liked him, that Jarvis Cocker. I like the fact he was androgynous, he could appeal to everybody. He wasn't just a lad pretending to be a thug...
From 06 March 2009 - Uncut Magazine Interview with Ian Brown: I was speaking to Michael Eavis this week, bit of an honour. Yeah, nice guy is Mike. Yeah, he loves you. He was reflecting on how different things could have been if you’d have fulfilled the headline slot… Yeah I agree with him. That ‘95 slot in Glastonbury was our chance to show that we were back after that, as you say, hiatus. And as fate had it, it wasn’t to be. John broke his collarbone and Pulp got the break from there. So I agree with him, yeah: things could have been made different if we’d have done that show. He also thought that some members of the band, he didn’t know quite who, weren’t really up for it. Is that true, or… No, the only reason we didn’t do that show is because John broke his collarbone. We didn’t want to bring another guitarist in at the time. I later learned that we could have got Slash. Slash was up for doing it, which might have been good, but it wouldn’t have been the same. We were a band and we didn’t want to perform with another guitar player.

July 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Guitar Magazine
Notes: Instead of holding a guitar. John, wearing the yellow and blue jacket, was holding a toy machine gun with a weird alien doll handle. Ian was holding a toy gun too.

July 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Japanese Rockin' On 7 Magazine

19 July 1995 Wednesday - The Stone Roses 19 venue tour sells out, 45,000 tickets in 24 hours

John Squire - Guitar
Ian Brown - Vocals
Gary 'Mani' Mounfield - Bass Guitar & Acoustic Guitar
Robbie 'The Jay' Maddix - Drums & Backing Vocals
Nigel Ieye Ippinson - Keyboards & Backing Vocals

July 1995 - Rehearsals
Notes: Nigel Ieye Ippinson joins the band on keyboards.
Nigel Ieye Ipinson-Fleming was born in Manchester in 1970.
In 1986 he joined Juvenile Jazz. They won the TV talent contest 'Saturday Superstore Search for a Superstar' in 1987 and issued a self-titled album the same year.
Ipinson played and recorded with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD). He played on their albums Sugar Tax (1991), Liberator (1993) and Universal (1996).
Nigel was responsible for keyboards and programming on the 'Chic Remix' of Begging You. He also played keys on the alternate HELP recording of Love Spreads.
In 1999 Ipinson-Fleming became the Managing Director of 'Music and Message', a multimedia solutions company.
From October 1995 - Australian Radio Interview with Robbie Maddix: M – Do you think there is any chance in the future that the Stone Roses will get a permanent keyboard player or does it look like it’s something they will just get for tours?
R – Well, we’ve got the keyboard player, he’s a friend of mine that I’ve worked with on other sessions, before, that I’ve written with. I’d done a remix on a single and I thought I needed keyboards on it, cause there’s keyboards on the album. ‘Let’s do this, it’s a different perspective, I need some keyboards on it’. So he came down and played, Ian loved it, Mani loved it, you know, John liked it, OK. So he was around, so we went into rehearsal at the same place as we was doing this mix and Nigel was just kind of around ready to go back. We set the keyboards up, and he’s got a really quick ear so he was playing stuff like Resurrection and he does backing vocals and it sounded really good. So the guys say ‘Why don’t you come on the road, you know Robbie, we like you, so come on the road and play some keys’. I mean anything goes, the Stone Roses are very much a four piece kind of outfit, bass, drums, guitar, vocal, simple, but yeah, I think we would like him to be around. I don’t think it’s just going to be now. He might be gone, he might have other commitments, we’re not quite sure just how it’s going to go, but he’s there, it’s good, it sounds a lot fuller, vocal sounds nice. It just depends how the next album goes, you know, we might have keyboards on the next album so he’s there again. The next album we might not, you know. So you know, it looks like he’s going to be doing some stuff with us, definitely.
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: We’d acquired a keyboard player [Nigel Ippinson] who was musical. We were getting tight again. People were there for us and we were feeling better again.”

30 July 1995 - Lollipop Festival, Stockholm, Sweden * Support:
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / I Am The Resurrection / Good Times / Begging You / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South
Notes: Unconfirmed date.
Nigel Ipinson's debut gig on keyboards. John's first show since he broke his collarbone. Lollpop festival attendance was approx 20,000 and the band headlined the festival.
Apparently, Robbie Maddix stormed off the stage before the acoustic set.
The girl from Geffen attends the show and hangs out with John after the show.
Mani meets Jarvis Cocker the day after the show and they talk about Glastonbury and Pulp's appearence.
Apparently, the band returned to the festival the day after. Mani met the band Gun. Ian went to watch Carl Cox, the same Carl who remixed Begging You for the upcoming single release.
See Media for the October 1995 - Vox Magazine, Live Review by Lisa Verrico.
From October 1995 - Vox Magazine, Live Review by Lisa Verrico: Backstage, the band give the gig six out of ten, and agree that some rehearsal between the following three dates in Finland is necessary for their Feile Festival appearance.
March 2000 - Jockey Slut Magazine includes a Ian Brown Q&A Session: Do you feel more at home at festivals like Homelands alongside the likes of Leftfield and Carl Cox? Charlotte Paton, London. "I'm told they're the best set-ups, so I was made up to be offered it. To be in the company of Leftfield and Carl Cox is an honour. Carl Cox is the best DJ I've ever seen. I seen him in a tent in Stockholm. He had about 18,000 Swedes dancing - that is some feat."

31 July 1995 - Tullikamari, Tampere, Finland
Soundcheck: Tears / Waterfall
(Unconfirmed setlist) I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Good Times / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South
Notes: 1000 capacity venue, venue did not sell out but ticket sales were decent.
Mauri Mikola said: ''I cannot remember the set list any more, but it consisted of the songs that they were playing around this time. No Tears though - they did this in the soundcheck that I listened to, from outside the venue. The set was dissed somehow in the press (I managed to find one review for it) but I thought it was marvellous. Ian kept quite well in tune and the band played very well. Ian was better in the soundcheck, though (they ran through at least Waterfall apart from Tears). I have always wanted to find a tape of this show - nobody seems to have taped it, even though there was practically no security. But on the other hand, I guess some of the magic memories would be lost if a tape would be pop out from somewhere. And yes, one more thing: Nigel lpinson played in Tampere - I was very irritated by the terrible keyboards in Love Spreads! The gigs in Helsinki were at Tavastia Club. Don't know about the attendance, but these got pretty ugly reviews too.

01 August 1995 - Tavastia Club, Helsinki, Finland
(Unconfirmed setlist) I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone
Notes:

02 August 1995 - Tavastia Club, Helsinki, Finland
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone
Notes: The band’s handwritten setlist also included Fool's Gold and Tears, but they were not performed. Tomi said: ''The second night (2nd August) I somehow got backstage. I remember talking for a long time with Mani, we mainly discussed Man Utd and Eric Cantona and had a few beers. Mani thought their second gig was really good and I agreed... Talked to Ian as well. They both seemed quite laid back and generally happy with things.''

06 August 1995 Sunday - Feile Festival, Pairc Ui Chaoimh, Cork, Republic Of Ireland
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Tears / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone
Notes: Debut performance of Tears. The band headlined the final night of the festival. Loads of fans caught the ferry over to watch the band perform. The festival was made up of the main arena, Gaelic football stadium with the pitch covered with hundreds of gymnasium crash mats, fairground rides, a few food vans, bars and a dance tent.
During the set Mani took the mic and voiced his support for Gerry Adams, IRA member.
Black Grape played on the Friday and singer Kermit dedicated a song to Ian Brown during their set, as Ian watched from the side of the stage. After the set, Shaun, Bez and Ian watch Tricky perform.
The band stayed at the Jury’s Hotel in Cork. Robbie Maddix challenged Blur's Damon Alburn to a piano competition, failing Nigel took over the keys and the three jammed together. Ian meets Damon and Graham Coxon from the band too.
See Media for 19 August 1995 - NME Magazine, Review and backstage interview.
The Times Newspaper Review said:"I have seen Take That, and the hysterics of their audience was nothing like the Roses fever at Feile. As the band took the stage people started piling over the crash barriers before they'd even played a note." Ian Brown was in the crowd wathcing Tricky's set, he was mobbed by fans for autographs and handshakes.
From 23-30 December 1995 - Melody Maker Magazine, Mani (The Stone Roses, Primal Scream) Interview by Dave Jennings: “There’s probably only been The Verve’s LP, ‘A Northern Soul’, and Black Grape’s LP that have moved me any this year,” he admits.
From Mani interview for I Am Without Shoes fansite: > IAWS: Favourite gig in the Scream Team? Favourite gig in the Roses? With the Roses it would have to be Glasgow Green. IAWS: I didn’t go, but I’ve got the bootleg, and even on that you can sense the atmosphere. Mani: Yeah, top gig. My other favourite Roses gig would have to be Feile Festival in ’95.
Supposedly the whole gig was recorded by 2FM, but has never been broadcast. Breaking Into Heaven & Love Spreads were broadcast on TV as part of the festival highlights.
Four choice tracks were officially released as an E.P. 'Crimson Tonight' in Australia & Japan. HMV and other record stores imported the single to the U.K. for sale.
Official Release: September 1995 - Crimson Tonight (GEFDM-22081) Daybreak, Breaking Into Heaven, Tightrope, Driving South
Broadcast: Dave Fanning Session, 2FM Radio, Ireland
TV Broadcast: 2FM Channel, Ireland
Bootleg: Feile Festival () Audience Recording
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Feile Festival (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "First half of gig is very clean, with nice bass and could be from the same source as the Crimson Tonight CD, although the guitar is a bit low in the mix. Elizabeth My Dear is slightly warped, and although the sound recovers, it doesn't sound as good as it did to start with after that, sounding a bit too fast." Cassette Originally Priced: £3.00, Running Time (Approx): 80mins) Tape
Bootleg: Feile Festival, Ireland '95 (Probably Made In Japan) Audience Recording - 2 CD-R - Intro / I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope - CD2 - Elizabeth My Dear / Tears / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone
Bootleg: Dave Fanning Session, 2FM Radio, Ireland (Tape) FM Recording - Daybreak, Breaking Into Heaven, Driving South, Tightrope, Love Spreads
Bootleg: Live Leeds & Feile 95 (Sleeve uses the 1989 Pennie Smith photo of the band with Reni in hat and shades, Mani and Ian look right whilst John and Reni look to the camera. Side 2 includes an excerpt from the Feile Show. TDK tape simply stickered "The Stone Roses 'Live'") Side 1 - Side 2 Feile Festival - Daybreak / Breaking into Heaven / Driving South / Tightrope - (TDK D60m) Tape
Bootleg: Live Leeds & Feile 95 (Same tape as above but with bootlegged red and black 'Camden Market' style paper sleeve)
Bootleg: Live At The Feile Festival Ireland 6.8.95 (Black and white printed insert with cut-out newspaper 1995 band era photo and The Stone Roses text. On a TDK FE Ferric 90 Cassette.) Audience Recording
Video Bootleg: Incomplete Amateur Audience Video Recording.
Video Bootleg: Incomplete Pro-shot 2FM Broadcast: Breaking Into Heaven / Love Spreads.
Video Bootleg: TV Appearances Compilation + Manchester 1985 Gig (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Originally Priced: £17.00) Video (PAL, NTSC) - Running Time (Approx): 80 mins (TV appearences) / 30 mins (Manchester 85) - Ian and John interview 1988 - Elephant Stone / Waterfall on The Other Side Of Midnight show, 1989 / I Wanna Be Adored (Manchester Hacienda, February 1989) - Very short Reni interview (Backstage, Hacienda) - Sugar Spun Sister (Hacienda) / She Bangs The Drums (Slo-Mo Promo) / Longish Ian and John interview, 1989 / She Bangs The Drums (Blackpool Promo) / Rapido Interview (uncut), October 1989 / Fools Gold on TOTP (November 1989) / Made Of Stone (Late Show - Power Cut, November 1989) / Fools Gold (Promo) / Elephant Stone (Promo) / Fools Gold mimed on Satellite TV, and interview with all four Roses / One Love (Promo) / I Wanna Be Adored (Promo) / Waterfall (OSM - improved quality version, but only half the performance) / Love Spreads (Promo) / Ten Storey Love Song (Promo) / Short MTV Interview / News on MTV of Reni leaving / Love Spreads (Feile Festival, August 1995) - Breaking Into Heaven (Feile Festival) / Recording Love Spreads live version for the Help! Album / Begging You (Promo) / Interview with Mani after leaving the Roses / Sally Cinnamon (Promo) / Love Spreads (US Promo, unedited) / Ten Storey Love Song (Unedited promo, without special effects!) / Love Spreads (Finished US Promo) / Love Spreads on Beavis and Butthead / Love Spreads on Red Cross Commercial - 20 July 1985 Saturday - Manchester Flower Show 1, Warehouse 1, Fairfield Street, Manchester - So Young / I Wanna Be Adored / Here It Comes / Tradjic Roundabout / Open My Eyes (The Nazz cover) / Tell Me
Video Bootleg: TV Appearances Compilation (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Running Time approx: 90mins. VHS Video Originally Priced: £16.00, DVD £18) Video (PAL, NTSC) - Running Time (Approx): 80 mins (TV appearences) / 30 mins (Manchester 85) - Ian and John interview 1988 - Elephant Stone / Waterfall on The Other Side Of Midnight show, 1989 / I Wanna Be Adored (Manchester Hacienda, February 1989) - Very short Reni interview (Backstage, Hacienda) - Sugar Spun Sister (Hacienda) / She Bangs The Drums (Slo-Mo Promo) / Longish Ian and John interview, 1989 / She Bangs The Drums (Blackpool Promo) / Rapido Interview (uncut), October 1989 / Fools Gold on TOTP (November 1989) / Made Of Stone (Late Show - Power Cut, November 1989) / Fools Gold (Promo) / Elephant Stone (Promo) / Fools Gold mimed on Satellite TV, and interview with all four Roses / One Love (Promo) / I Wanna Be Adored (Promo) / Waterfall (OSM - improved quality version, but only half the performance) / Love Spreads (Promo) / Ten Storey Love Song (Promo) / Short MTV Interview / News on MTV of Reni leaving / Love Spreads (Feile Festival, August 1995) - Breaking Into Heaven (Feile Festival) / Recording Love Spreads live version for the Help! Album / Begging You (Promo) / Interview with Mani after leaving the Roses / Sally Cinnamon (Promo) / Love Spreads (US Promo, unedited) / Ten Storey Love Song (Unedited promo, without special effects!) / Love Spreads (Finished US Promo) / Love Spreads on Beavis and Butthead / Love Spreads on Red Cross Commercial

August 1995 - Fools Gold '95 U.K. Re-Release Date
Fools Gold (The Tall Paul Remix) - Produced by John Leckie. Remix by Tall Paul. Additional production by Tall Paul & Larry Lush. Engineered by Larry Lush.
Fools Gold 9.53 / 4.15 - Produced and mixed by John Leckie.
Fools Gold (Cricklewood Ballroom Mix) - Produced by John Leckie. Remix and additional production by Ollie Dagois for Sarm Productions. Remix Engineers: Sarah Bedingham & Yan Memmi. Remixed at Battery Studios.
Label: Silvertone
Artwork: '' John Squire
Format: Promo 12inch Vinyl. Catalog Number: ORE DJ 71. Sent out for reactions with a sheduled date for '17 April 1995'.
Fools Gold (The Tall Paul Remix)
Fools Gold 9.53
Fools Gold (Cricklewood Ballroom Mix)
Format: 12inch Vinyl. Catalog Number: ORE T 71
Matrix A-Side: ORE DJ 71 A1 DAMONT
Matrix B-Side: ORE DJ 71 B-1 DAMONT
Fools Gold (The Tall Paul Remix)
Fools Gold 9.53
Fools Gold (Cricklewood Ballroom Mix)
Format: Cassette. Catalog Number: ORE C 71
Fools Gold 4.15
Fools Gold (The Tall Paul Remix)
Format: CD. B6782 ORECD 71 ' 1:3 MASTERED BY NIMBUS Catalog Number: ORE CD 71. Barcode: 5013705907524. 0RE CD 71 Made In The UK (On disc face)
Fools Gold 4.15
Fools Gold 9.53
Fools Gold (The Tall Paul Remix)
Fools Gold (Cricklewood Ballroom Mix)
Format: Promo CD. Catalog Number:
Fool’s Gold 1995 (Radio Edit) 4:05
Notes: Another re-release of Fools Gold with two new remixes.

August 1995 - John designs and paints the Warchild 'Help' album sleeve.
Notes: Sleeve for the E.P & LP for the 'Help!' Bosnia relief charity compilation. See 09 September 1995.

26 August 1995 - Mani and Sophie's son 'Joseph Christian Mounfield' is born.
Notes: Sophie brought Joseph to the Tour Rehearsals in September too.
From April 1999 - Leagues Mag, Mani interview: You've got one little boy already? "Joseph Christian Mounfield. A beauty he is. You know "The Second Coming" sleeve, the picture of me as a kid? That's how he looks. It's genetic. The poor bastard (laughing). He's beautiful, man. I'd like him to get into music because it's not done me too bad. I don't know what his Mum would think though."

01 September 1995 - Pilton Playing Fields, Village Green, Somerset, England * Support Act(s): Dodgy
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Tears / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone
Notes: The bands first show in the U.K. for nearly four years. Invite-only performance, approx. 1,500 tickets were issued. Their appearance was an ‘apology’ to Michael Eavis for missing Glastonbury, when they had to pull out due to John Squire breaking his collarbone in a cycling accident in America. Apparently locals listened to the band from nearby hills and many tried to jump the gates too on the night.
All the band, apart from John, party and meet fans after the show.
Kevin Cummins took photos during the show.
See Media for 16 September 1995 - NME Magazine, Review by Steve Sutherland.
From 06 March 2009 - Uncut Magazine Interview with Ian Brown: What do you remember of the Pilton Party? Yeah, that was great, because we got a chance to sort of thank Michael Eavis for giving us that advice in the first place by playing that village fete. And that was our first show in the UK for five years at that time. I think we played really well; it was a great night, yeah. Of course, there were more than 2,000 people… No, it was only small. I can’t remember how many, but it was in a tent. It wasn’t that many. But, it was a great night. Got breakfast with the Eavis family around their kitchen table, which was nice. You got breakfast? Yeah. Emily was only a little girl then. She’s rocking it now though, ain’t she? Yeah she runs it now don’t she.''
From 04 March 2011 - 040311 Clash Features (Clash Magazine/Website)- The Stone Roses: Michael Eavis Interview "As part of the 20 year celebration of the Stone Roses first album in April 2009. Clash spoke to Micheal Eavis about The Roses' appearance at the Pilton Party and how he would love them to play Glasto...
"The Stone Roses have always been on our wish list. And they still are… they are going to reform aren’t they? Well you hope so anyway. They never played the festival itself but the Pilton Party they did later in the summer (’95) was the last proper gig they did together, all four of them were there together weren’t they? We talked their agent into them doing it and promised them the headline slot the year after."
"So it was the Pilton Party to prepare for the big slot in 1996. Now Pilton Party is a fund raiser for the people in the village and I didn’t really think that they were going to turn up and I still can’t believe that they did. Even their agent wasn’t feeling too confident about it! The NME chap came down, Steve Sutherland, and even he didn’t think they’d appear. So when they did actually turn up I just couldn’t believe my eyes as the whole band was there. It was really only the villagers and a few locals that turned up, then me and the chap from the NME standing there. It was terrific. They played so many of their old songs. It was the best thing the Pilton Party had ever seen. Everyone has played that party at points. Coldplay have done it a couple of times now. Then Coldplay did it in ’98 on the strength that they got the 1999 headiner slot on the Friday night. That was the golden rule. You did the Pilton party then you got treated with respect after. It’s a good thing for the village too. It raises about £40,000 for the villagers, which keeps everyone happy. What more can I say? We were just mesmerised. And Ian Brown… he’s so socialable isn’t he? He doesn’t have a nasty rock star agenda does he? He’s just so pleasant and you really get the sense that he wants to be here."
"I didn’t quite believe the story of John Squire’s injury to be honest. I think there was another problem going on there. I think there was more going on than just the collarbone incident. I think the band were falling out at that point and the broken shoulder came at the same time. Jarvis [Cocker] then obviously came in (with Pulp) and did a good show. And that was really the last big thing Pulp did."
"If the Roses had managed to stay together a lot would have been different. They pre-empted the whole Oasis thing, which then became massive. They played in 1994 on the second stage and that was the best gig they ever did here I think. I think Oasis took all the glory that The Stone Roses should have had. It’s probably too late now but we’d be thrilled if they got back together and did a comeback gig here - that’d be great. But then Ian Brown comes every second year anyway and does some Stone Roses songs."

September 1995 - Tour Rehearsals, Rockfield Studios, Wales
I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads
From 06-19 December 1995 - Select Magazine, article by Sian Pattenden:
THE BAND MOST FAMOUS FOR DOING NOTHING ARE currently engaged in kicking a football around the garden of Rockfield rehearsal studios in South Wales. It's an unexpectedly sweltering day for early September and Ian Brown is suffering from the heat - he's just bought a sweater from Burtons in town and wants to take it off, but modesty forbids. The garden is small, and the ball keeps landing behind the assorted cars parked in the driveway - including John Squire's Merc.
Their kickabout doesn't last long. It's just too hot. To escape the sun they go back inside the house to watch VH1 on cable. The mood is as relaxed as the surroundings - there's a smattering of tabloids scattered around, bulging ashtrays and a bunch of browning bananas. Mani feels obliged to mutter some comment in his impenetrable Mancunian accent about every video, until someone suggests they switch to the rugby instead. Everyone is glued to the screen until Mani's girlfriend Sophie and their newborn baby Joseph arrive, then they rouse themselves to do some work. And somehow, through the noise of the Roses' live set, young Joseph manages to nod off. It's a quick, last-minute rehearsal before their equipment is freighted to Japan for the start of a six-week tour. The addition of keyboardist Nigel Ipinson gives 'I Am The Resurrection' and 'Love Spreads' far more depth, a quality that the Roses have always striven for when playing live. It sounds incredible.

04 September 1995 - Rockfield Studios, Wales
Love Spreads
Notes: Recording for the 'Help!' Bosnia relief charity compilation.
Official Release: 09 September 1995 - Help! - Various Artists CD
Video: Official Promo Video
From October 1995 - Australian Radio Interview with Robbie Maddix:
M – Oh, I don’t know. I could be happy with all the obscure B sides as well and all that. I have been a fan for years. You recently contributed a track for the War Child record in the UK. Give us a low down of War Child and that record.
R – Basically it was our press office, Terry Hall was involved, she told us what it was about and obviously it is children for crying out loud. There are other places that need help as well but this came about, this is charity, whatever this is will do. So we decided to do the War Child thing, everyone had to record, I think there was 15-odd artists on there, and everyone had to record a song on the day and have the finished version by midnight, which was then helicoptered to London, pressed and then went on sale the Saturday and it went straight to number one. So that was good, it might still be there.
M – A kind of instant record.
R – Yeah, and two million pounds it’s raised already and that’s only 3 weeks since it’s been out. Maybe this is the fourth week.
M – I think it’s getting released here next week.
R – I know, it’s got a couple of favourable tracks. We’ve done Love Spreads on it. I played on it, Nigel played on it, the keyboard player, so when you give it a listen you will be able to hear where we are coming from, not song wise but sound wise.
From February 1996 - Rhythm Magazine, Interview with Robbie Maddix by Pat Reid: THE FIRST chance for the record-buying public to hear Robbie playing with the Roses was on the version of 'Love Spreads' that the band donated to the Help album. Approaching it totally differently from the original, he substitutes Reni's speed and dynamism for a hard, measured, almost industrial rock feel. "The way you heard it there was exactly the way I played it on the first day of rehearsal. The only change was a few different rudiments here and there (Robbie drums demonstratively on a nearby surface at this point). I just put it down in the manner I wanted it to sound."
Bootleg: TV Appearances Compilation + Manchester 1985 Gig (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Originally Priced: £17.00) Video (PAL, NTSC) - Running Time (Approx): 80 mins (TV appearences) / 30 mins (Manchester 85) - Ian and John interview 1988 - Elephant Stone / Waterfall on The Other Side Of Midnight show, 1989 / I Wanna Be Adored (Manchester Hacienda, February 1989) - Very short Reni interview (Backstage, Hacienda) - Sugar Spun Sister (Hacienda) / She Bangs The Drums (Slo-Mo Promo) / Longish Ian and John interview, 1989 / She Bangs The Drums (Blackpool Promo) / Rapido Interview (uncut), October 1989 / Fools Gold on TOTP (November 1989) / Made Of Stone (Late Show - Power Cut, November 1989) / Fools Gold (Promo) / Elephant Stone (Promo) / Fools Gold mimed on Satellite TV, and interview with all four Roses / One Love (Promo) / I Wanna Be Adored (Promo) / Waterfall (OSM - improved quality version, but only half the performance) / Love Spreads (Promo) / Ten Storey Love Song (Promo) / Short MTV Interview / News on MTV of Reni leaving / Love Spreads (Feile Festival, August 1995) - Breaking Into Heaven (Feile Festival) / Recording Love Spreads live version for the Help! Album / Begging You (Promo) / Interview with Mani after leaving the Roses / Sally Cinnamon (Promo) / Love Spreads (US Promo, unedited) / Ten Storey Love Song (Unedited promo, without special effects!) / Love Spreads (Finished US Promo) / Love Spreads on Beavis and Butthead / Love Spreads on Red Cross Commercial - 20 July 1985 Saturday - Manchester Flower Show 1, Warehouse 1, Fairfield Street, Manchester - So Young / I Wanna Be Adored / Here It Comes / Tradjic Roundabout / Open My Eyes (The Nazz cover) / Tell Me
Video Bootleg: TV Appearances Compilation (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Running Time approx: 90mins. VHS Video Originally Priced: £16.00, DVD £18) Video (PAL, NTSC) - Running Time (Approx): 80 mins (TV appearences) / 30 mins (Manchester 85) - Ian and John interview 1988 - Elephant Stone / Waterfall on The Other Side Of Midnight show, 1989 / I Wanna Be Adored (Manchester Hacienda, February 1989) - Very short Reni interview (Backstage, Hacienda) - Sugar Spun Sister (Hacienda) / She Bangs The Drums (Slo-Mo Promo) / Longish Ian and John interview, 1989 / She Bangs The Drums (Blackpool Promo) / Rapido Interview (uncut), October 1989 / Fools Gold on TOTP (November 1989) / Made Of Stone (Late Show - Power Cut, November 1989) / Fools Gold (Promo) / Elephant Stone (Promo) / Fools Gold mimed on Satellite TV, and interview with all four Roses / One Love (Promo) / I Wanna Be Adored (Promo) / Waterfall (OSM - improved quality version, but only half the performance) / Love Spreads (Promo) / Ten Storey Love Song (Promo) / Short MTV Interview / News on MTV of Reni leaving / Love Spreads (Feile Festival, August 1995) - Breaking Into Heaven (Feile Festival) / Recording Love Spreads live version for the Help! Album / Begging You (Promo) / Interview with Mani after leaving the Roses / Sally Cinnamon (Promo) / Love Spreads (US Promo, unedited) / Ten Storey Love Song (Unedited promo, without special effects!) / Love Spreads (Finished US Promo) / Love Spreads on Beavis and Butthead / Love Spreads on Red Cross Commercial

07 September 1995 - The band fly out to Japan

M - 09 September 1995 - Ian Brown & Robbie 'The Jay' Maddix feature on the cover of NME (New Musical Express) Magazine with Noel Gallagher & Simon "Sice" Rowbottom (Boo Radleys singer)
Notes: Promoting the upcoming 'Help!' Bosnia relief charity compilation. The NME priced at 80p.

The Stone Roses - 09 September 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the Various Artists Compilation 'Help!'
Label: Go! Discs
Artwork: 'Help' by John Squire
Love Spreads (Live In Studio)
Notes: The album sleeve was designed by John Squire. The band recorded a special version of Love Spreads for the release in Rockfield Studios, Wales. They also recorded a Love Spreads 'Help Version' promo video to help promote the release.
Robbie Maddix featured & produced this live version of Love Spreads, recorded for the Bosnian Children charity album, Help!.
Official Release: Help! - Various Artists CD
Video: Official Promo Video

1995 - Paul Ryder asks Reni to form a band

1995 - Rough Trade boss Geoff Travis asked Reni to play drums with ex-Suede guitarist Bernard Butler.

1995 - Driving South Unreleased Third Single
From 01 March 1995 - 'The Face Magazine' Issue 78, March 95: So what would you like to redo on the album now? Ian: I’d redo the vocals on “Driving South”. Do it stronger. Reni: I’d want to change half the drums!

Second Coming Japanese Tour
September
John, Ian, Mani
&
Robbie Maddix aka Robbie Jay: Drums
Nigel Ieye Ipinson: Keyboards & Backing Vocals
-
Steve Atherton: Tour Manager
Chris Griffiths: Production Manager
Hugh Calder: Drum Technician

Bootleg Merch T-Shirts Included: 1995 Waterfall (Blue Japanese tour shirt with the incorrect June dates on the back) Brand/Tag: TULTEX - Fabric Blend: 100% Cotton - Color: Blue - Pit-to-Pit: 17.50" - Length: 28" - Label Size: S

11 September 1995 - Club Chitta, Kawasaki, Tokyo, Japan
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Tears / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone /
encore: Fools Gold
Notes: Fools Gold at the time had been remixed by Tall Paul for a another re-release. The similarities in this arrangement maybe a coincidence.
A unique Japanese, Australian & U.K. Tour Programme went on sale here & for the rest of the 1995 dates. The programme featured new John Squire pollock artwork which would later feature as the sleeve to the 2002 The Very Best Of release. Next to the crew credits also featured John Squires 'Cars' art piece too. This was rumoured to be the artwork for the unreleased single 'Driving South'. Current line up (John, Ian, Mani & Robbie Maddix aka Robbie Jay) photos feature throughout. In the programme after the departure of Reni, the band is noted as 'Thus was born The Stone Roses Mark II: a close, confident ensemble, keen to prove themselves once again, ready to avenge the sour-faced sceptice and prove that their lofty place in recent musical history is justified beyond doubt.' The tour credits also include Nigel Ieye Ipinson on Keyboards & Backing Vocals. The biography was written by John Harris, September 1995. The 1995 tour programme lists the venue date as 'Budohkan'.
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: “We were erratic. We were poor in Copenhagen, but by the time we got to Japan we were smokin’. ...We never followed up Fools Gold because John never rated it! He felt embarrassed to play the funk.”
Bootleg: Magic Club Ride 2 CD + VHS (Cat. No: SRJP-001/002. Initial copies of the card sleeve pressing came with a 2 track VHS recording, featuring footage from another Japanese TV broadcast) Silver Factory Pressed CD - Audience Recording - CD1 - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear - CD2 - Tears / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone / encore: Fools Gold
Bootleg: Club Chitta (aka "Magic Club Ride") (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). (Probably straight copies of Magic Club Ride silver cds.) "The acoustic set is brilliant, and Ian sounds quite good. The keyboards are way too high in the mix though and are all over IATR and Waterfall, which I think is a bad thing. Squire also sounds a bit drugged-out, messing up on SBTD, Daybreak, IATR and Love Spreads...The length of the set and quality of the recording, the best performance of Fools Gold with Maddix on the drums and to hear the messed up IATR, where Ian sings the wrong pitch, Squire and Mani play at the right pitch, but Ippinson improvises and plays at Ian's pitch! It sounds very… interesting. And yes, it is pronounced "Shitta"." 2CD Originally Priced: £16.00, Running Time (Approx): 90mins, Cassette originally priced: £3.50) CD-R / Tape

Bootleg: Our Third Stone Satellite 2CD-r () Audience Recording

12 September 1995 - Budohkan, Budakon Club, Nippon, Tokyo, Japan * Doors Open: 18:00, Show Starts: 19:00 * Ticket Price: Y6,500
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Tears / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone
Notes: The 1995 tour programme lists the venue date as 'Budohkan'. When an audience member shouts for Something's Burning, Ian responded "Yeah, you're right. Something is burning."
From Ian Brown Q Magazine Interview by Howard Johnson: HJ: When did you last cry and why? IB: in 1995 after we'd just played the Budokan in Japan with The Roses. I was thinking about one of my favourite reggae artists, Garnet Silk. He died in 1994 after the heating tank blew up in his house in Jamaica. A lot of his family were in the house and they were so badly burn they couldn't even be recognised. Anyway, I woke up in my hotel room crying my eyes out.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''Japan was crazy. From the second we stepped off the plane, it was full on. Fans following you everywhere you go, and I mean everywhere. We stayed in Japan for three weeks and played some great shows, but for me, Tokyo stood out. We were booked to play two sold-out nights at the Budokan stadium and had also heard that bands were finding it hard to sell out one night, never mind two nights so the excitement levels raised again. We arrived backstage on the first night and I was amazed to hear the Japanese fans chanting “Roses, Roses!”. It was so loud, you could hear the noise from outside the stadium, like a footy match on match day. Awesome. Once the gig started, we were in full flow. Mani dancing away to the groove, Ian marching along, John in mesmerizing form and myself giving 110 percent. Then something crazy happened. During Daybreak, I’m given like a four-bar solo if you like, so sometimes I would try something special. So i did. The crowd went ballistic and when the song had finished the fans started chanting “Robbie Robbie!” At first, it sounded like “Roses!” but then you could hear it clearly. Mani was buzzing, pointing at me and laughing. “Can you hear that rude boy? They love you!” John was clapping his hands and smiling, and Ian came up onto the drum rise and gave me a big kiss on the cheek. “Yes the Jay”, as he always called me. That night, I knew I was a Rose. The love I felt was incredible, not just from the fans, but by IB, GM and JS.''

13 September 1995 - Budohkan, Budakon Club, Nippon, Tokyo, Japan
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Tears / I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone /
encore: Fools Gold
Notes: From 1998 - Top Of The Pops Q&A: Will Drayton asks: "What was the best thing that the Roses ever did?" Ian Brown: (munching a prawn sandwich) "Playing the Budokan Martial Arts Centre in Tokyo."
16 February 2000 Wednesday - music365.com Ian Brown Q & A Session: From Daniel Mushing: What is your favourite gig you have ever played? Ian: Glasgow Green, 1990, or Budokan, Japan, 1995, or Brixton Academy, 1999.
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Gold Experience (Disc 1 Face: FLDP-52 flopover Promotion only NIFTY-NIFF . Disc 1 Matrix: FLDP-52 . Disc 2 Face: FLDP-53 flopover Promotion only NIFTY-NIFF . Disc 2 Matrix: FLDP-53) - 2 CD - CD1 - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Tears - CD2 - I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone / encore: Fools Gold - Bonus tracks: Groove Harder / Elephant Stone (Demo 86) / Sun Still Shines (Demo 86)
Bootleg: Tokyo Budokan - Audience Recording - (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). (Probably a straight copy of Gold Experience) "" 2CD Originally Priced: £16.00, Running Time (Approx): 100mins, Cassette originally priced: £2.50) CD1 - Intro - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Tears - CD2 - I Am The Resurrection / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / Made Of Stone / encore: Fools Gold - Bonus tracks: Groove Harder / Elephant Stone (Demo 86) / Sun Still Shines (Demo 86) - CD-R / Tape

1995 - Ian Brown is attacked in a nightclub in Tokyo, Japan
Notes: An Australian bodybuilder punched four (probably two) of Ian's teeth out.
From 02 February 2002 Saturday 16:03 - The Guardian Newspaper article, by Lindsay Baker: Brown was beaten up no less than three times in three years, between 1995 and 1997. On the final Roses tour, in a club in Tokyo, he was set upon by three Australian bodybuilders (who, he says, took exception to the female attention he was receiving). Then he was attacked by four bouncers in a club in Warrington: "I took 25 or 30 punches to the head - a proper beating." A year later, he was attacked again, this time in the street by an assailant with a metal bar.

15 September 1995 - Convention Hall, Okinawa, Japan
Notes: Convention Hall also known as Convention Theatre

17 September 1995 - IMP Hall, Osaka, Japan
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope /
Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
encore: Fools Gold
Notes: Ian is obviously upset with the unresponsive crowd. "Anyone know a good joke ?" he says at one point. "We come all this way, play you the music - Who likes the music?". During Driving South he repeatedly shouts "You ain't sayin' shit!".
Bootleg: Osaka Imp Hall (17th) (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "Slightly muffled, with a bit of noise, but a good mix and reasonably clean. Cymbals seem to disappear halfway through. Squire and Mani occasionally hit off-notes, Squire especially, particuarly on TSLS. Ian sounds bored (see below), but isn't too bad at singing. Maddix puts in one of his better performances. The performance as a whole sounds a bit flat, for reasons I can't explain." Cassette Originally Priced: £2.50, Running Time (Approx): 80mins) Intro - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope /
Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection - Tape

18 September 1995 - Century Hall, Nagoya, Japan * Doors Open: 18:30, Music: 19:00 * Ticket Price: Y6,500

20 September 1995 - Miel Pargue Hall, Yubin Chokin, Hiroshima, Japan
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South /
encore: Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Breaking Into Heaven 'Jam' section is extended. An incomplete broadcast was aired on Japanese Radio.
Bootleg: September Songs (3D Reality Records, Cat. No. 3D-SR-050) Silver Factory Pressed CD - Audience Recording - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song - Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / The Fozz (Outro P.A. Studio Version)
Bootleg: Good Times Fantasise (2014, Made In Japan, Cat. No. NN-133) - 2 Pro-CD-R - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South
encore: Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection
Bootleg: Hiroshima Miel Pargue Hall (aka "September Songs") (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "" CD Originally Priced: £11.00, Running Time (Approx): 70mins, Cassette originally priced: £3) CD-R / Tape
Bootleg: September Rain (Just a copy of September Songs) CD-R - Audience Recording - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song - Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / The Fozz (Outro P.A. Studio Version)
Bootleg: Hiroshima () Intro / I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection / Outro (The Fozz (Outro P.A. Studio Version))
Bootleg: Love Spreads 1995 (Cat. No. SR-001/2. Cover image shows Ian on stage at Spike Island, where the rear photo shows an image from 1989.) 2 CD-R - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears - CD 2 - Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection
Video Bootleg: Pro-shot, only excerpts, were broadcast. Apparently the whole gig was recorded, but has never been broadcast.

21 September 1995 - Sun Palace Hall, Fukuoka, Japan
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope /
Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Daybreak clocks in around 6 minutes, one of the shortest all year.
Bootleg: Fukuoka Sun Palace - Audience Recording - (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "Sounds great on quiet parts, but on louder parts (i.e. the majority of the gig), the bass is squeezed out by the guitar and treble. Drums are quite weedy. Very clear though, especially the guitar and vocals. Guitar is quite dominant but very crisp-sounding. As it is, it gets a B rating, but if you are willing to put in a bit of work with the EQing, it could be an A. Slight cut in Made Of Stone, and occasional funny noises during Tightrope...Ian misses out a few lines, and the band give a stuttery performance of Tears and I Am The Resurrection. Keyboards are quite high in the mix - it's your own personal choice as to whether that's a good thing. Great Waterfall though, and Ian sings quite well throughout with the exception of Resurrection. He is great at the start of Good Times, he sings the solo bit very well, then missing out a line and just going "Yes" before the band kick in, it sounds great." Cassette Originally Priced: £3.50, Running Time (Approx): 80mins) Intro - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection - Tape
Bootleg: Audience Recording - 2 CD-R

24 September 1995 - Sun Palace - Imp Hall, Osaka, Japan
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South
encore: I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Second date at the Imp Hall. The 1995 tour programme lists the venue date as 'Osaka Sun Palace'.
Bootleg: Osaka Imp Hall (24th) - Audience Recording - (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "Bass is too high in the mix and the noise gets louder after a good start, but on the whole a clear recording...Ian is well on form, sounding almost as good as at Leicester (something to do with Japan's stringent anti-drug laws?), though he messes up his timing on occasions. Nigel Ippinson's keyboards are not yet properly integrated and get on your nerves. Squire is great in some parts but makes mistakes in others. Still sounds unrehearsed in places." Cassette Originally Priced: £3.00, Running Time (Approx): 80mins) - Tape
Bootleg: The Second Coming Japan Tour - Osaka 2nd Night (Made In Japan, Grün Zünd Music, Cat. No. GZM-041 TEARS Z01) 2 Pro-CD-R - Audience Recording - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection

25 September 1995 - Sun Palace - Imp Hall, Osaka, Japan
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South /
Notes: Third date at the Imp Hall. The 1995 tour programme lists the venue date as 'Osaka Sun Palace'. Strangely I Am The Resurrection is dropped from the setlist, apparently it was on the set for the encore but the band never returned to the stage.
Bootleg: Osaka Imp Hall (25th) - (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "Clearest of all the Osaka gigs, the bass not being quite as dominant. The most polished performance in Osaka, but still quite sterile-sounding stuff from the Roses - they would have to tour Australia and return to England before they would truly sound great. Ian misses out too many lines for my liking, and Maddix tries some different fills that don't really come off, AND there's no IATR encore, although the Good Times performance is possibly the best one I've heard." Cassette Originally Priced: £3.00, Running Time (Approx): 75mins) Intro - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South - Tape

27 September 1995 - Factory Hall, Sapporo, Japan
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South /
encore: I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Ian burned a Union flag on stage, during the guitar solo on Ten Storey Love Song.

28 September 1995 - Club Chitta, Kawasaki, Japan
Notes: Second date at Club Chitta. The 1995 tour programme lists the venue date as 'Club Citta'. The band ended the tour where it started.

September 1995 - Crimson Tonight E.P. Australian & Japanese Release Date
Jim Lockheart - Producer. Paddy MacBreen - Studio Engineer. Simon Dawson - Mixing Engineer. Mastered by Tony Cousins, Metropolis, London. Recorded by 2FM.
Artwork by Whoever. Manufactured and Marketed in Australia by MCA Music Entertainment Limited. Distributed by BMG Australia Limited.
CD Australia GEFDM-22081
CD Japan
Daybreak (Live)
Breaking Into Heaven (Live)
Driving South (Live)
Tightrope (Live)
Notes: Recorded Live 06 August 1995 - Feile Festival, Cork, Republic Of Ireland. Recording was provided by 2FM, although they did not broadcast the entire show. HMV and other record stores imported the single to the U.K. for sale.
From 5 December 1994 - The Big Issue Magazine:... Ian’s modest ambition is to “make the best LP of all time”, while John wants to make the definitive Stone Roses live album. “It’s just that sometimes we get to a special place on stage that we never achieve on record and I’d like to hear that properly, from outside.”
From October 1995 - Australian Radio Interview with Robbie Maddix: M – Thinking of records, any chance of a live record coming out?
R – Yeah, I don’t know for Australia what will happen, I think it will be world wide. We did the Feile Festival, done in Cork, that’s like a four/five track EP. That’s gone on sale in Japan I think and I don’t know if it’s going to be world wide, but we are looking to recording a live album and put that out before the next studio album comes out.
M – That will be good. So will it be that festival or will you record…
R – We will record a new show, we did some good shows at the Budokan. We’re going to record some shows while we are in Australia so we are trying to get whether it will be a live show from one place or a live album from a few of the places, so everyone can get the vibe and check out what it was like, different sounds in different places, whatever.

Australian Tour
01 October 1995 Sunday - Festival Hall, Brisbane, Australia
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South /
encore: Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: The 1995 tour programme lists the venue date as 'Brisbane Roxy'. Begging You was ready for release for the tour. The Australian Tour E.P only saw release in November 1995, see below.
"The Australian Tour was cancelled" Was it?

02 October 1995 Monday - Enmore Theatre, Sydney, Australia
Notes: This date was also the original Begging You Tour Edition Single Release Date, see November for eventual release date.

03 October 1995 Tuesday - Enmore Theatre, Sydney, Australia
(Unconfirmed) I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South
encore: I Am The Resurrection
Notes: See Media for 04 October 1995 Wednesday - Sydney Morning Herald, Live Review.
The Begging You Australian E.P. incorrectly noted the date "03 October 1995 Tuesday - Horden Pavilion, Sydney"

04 October 1995 Tuesday - Enmore Theatre, Sydney, Australia
Notes: Unconfirmed additional date.

October 1995 - Australian Radio Interview with Robbie Maddix
Notes: Show hosted by Michael.

05 October 1995 Thursday - Metro, Melbourne, Australia
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope /
Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South
encore: I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Apparently, Ian rarely took his sunglasses off and he never spoke to the crowd.
See Media for 08 October 1995 - Melbourne Age, Live Review by Elissa Blake.
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: I think the Australian shows were some of the best we ever did

07 October 1995 Saturday - Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide, Australia

08 October 1995 Sunday - Metropolis, Perth, Australia * Support Act(s): Six Nile High

09 October 1995 Monday - Metropolis, Perth, Australia * Support Act(s): Kim Salmon
Notes: Additional date due to popular demand. Final date of the Australian tour.

10 October 1995 Tuesday - The band fly back to blighty.

M - 18 October 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of (The NME monthly) Vox Magazine, Prcied at £2.20
Notes: "Tales of the Orient excess", included a free tape featuring various artists.

The Stone Roses - 21 October 1995 - Crimson Tonight Japanese Release Date
CD MVCG-12029, Y1,300 Yen. Japanese promo poster read ''The Stone Roses Live In Ireland''

The Stone Roses - 30 October 1995 - Begging You U.K. Release Date
Begging You, Written by John Squire & Ian Brown. Produced by Paul Schroeder and Simon Dawson. Partly recorded by John Leckie. Programming on Begging You by Brian Pugsley. Engineered by Simon Dawson. Mixed by Bill Price in (ou)R Sound.

Begging You (Lakota Mix) - Mixed by Bill Price & Denis in (ou)r sound.
Begging You (Stone Corporation Vox) - Additional production and remix by Neil Claxton and Johnny Jay for The Development Corporation. Engineered by Lee Monteverde at Moonraker Studios, Manchester.

Begging You (Chic Mix) (The Chic Remix) - Remix and additional production Robbie Jay Maddix (includes live overdubs by the band). All live instruments by The Stone Roses. All programming by Nigel Ieye Ipinson. Engineering by Simon Dawson. Assistant engineer Pat Oshaughnessy. Mixed by Robbie Jay.
Begging You (Young American Primitive Remix) - Additional production and remix by Young American Primitive for mct.
Begging You (Cox's Ultimatum Mix) (The Ultimatumn Mix) - Mixed by Carl Cox.
Begging You (Overworld Mix) - Additional production and remix by Neil Claxton and Johnny Jay for The Development Corporation. Engineered by Lee Monteverde at Moonraker Studios, Manchester.

Label: Geffen
Artwork: John Squire designed the "Begging You" cover with the insides of floppy disks. Pete Kelsey designed the sleeve layout. The disks were supposedly used to teach Squire how to use samplers and sequencers for the track. Squire found the process too complicated and decided to smash the disks and use them for artwork instead. Squire took the insides of the disks and set them in plaster and arranged them in a grid motif, painting the piece with colours "borrowed" from an Edgar Degas painting. Designed by Pete Kelsey.
Promo Video: The Roses themselves didn't feature in the video for Begging You, they got stripped down female dancers to dance around with Ian, John, Mani and Robbie's faces on them as well as strange footage of Chinese dragons and English traditional dancing. The video also features footage recorded by Sophie Muller (25 April 1995 - Metropol, Berlin).

Promo CD. Made In England.Catalog Number: WGFSTD 22060 - WGSTD 22060 (Black and white custom sleeve. Sleeve indicates incorrect times 4.52 and 7.48)
Begging You (Radio Edit) 3:51
Begging You (Chic Edit) 3:45
Promo 12inch Vinyl 33rpm, Made In England - WGFST 22060 - 22060A A-1-1-1/22060B B-3-1-1-1
A1 Begging You (Stone Corporation Vox)
A2 Begging You (Cox's Ultimatum Mix)
B1 Begging You (Overworld Mix) (6:31)
B2 Begging You (Lakota Mix)
Format: Promo 12inch Vinyl. Catalog Number: WGFSX 22060
Begging You (Album Version)
Begging You (Chic Mix)
Begging You (Stone Corporation Dub) (5:46)
Begging You (Young American Primitive Remix)
Format: 12inch Vinyl. Catalog Number: GEFST 22060
Begging You (Album Version)
Begging You (Chic Mix)
Begging You (Cox's Ultimatum Mix)
Begging You (Stone Corporation Vox)
Format: Cassette. Catalog Number: GFSC 22060
Begging You (Album Version)
Begging You (Chic Mix)
Format: CD. B9359 GFSTD 22060 :' 1:2 IFPI L123 Mastered By Nimbus IFPI L125(Plastic Ring: ifpi 2313) Catalog Number: GEFSTD 22060. Barcode: 720642206027
Format: CD. B9359 GFSTD 22060 :' 1:4 IFPI L123 Mastered By Nimbus IFPI L125(Plastic Ring: ifpi 2310) Catalog Number: GEFSTD 22060. Barcode: 720642206027
Begging You (Album Version)
Begging You (Lakota Mix)
Begging You (Stone Corporation Vox)
Begging You (Chic Mix)
Begging You (Young American Primitive Remix)
Notes: Peaked At Number 15 In The U.K. Charts. From the released tracks, post 1990, John and Ian only wrote Begging You and Ride On together.
The single had been remixed back in April and the NME had set an initial date for 12 June 1995. The remix promo had been circulating since August too.
Begging You (Cox's Ultimatum Mix) was unique to the vinyl release. Begging You (Overworld Mix) was only available on the vinyl promo editions.
Begging You (Stone Corporation Vox) dates all the way back to April 1995 when it was mentioned as the next single in the NME magazine, see Media section for the complete article.
Promo Advance Copy WGFST 22060A/22060B came with a press sheet 'i'm begging you' mixes by the development corporation & carl cox. release date - 30/10/95. reactions should be returned within 14 days to matt & laura @ mca club promotions, 139 piccadilly, london, wlv oax...
From 01 March 1995 -'The Face Magazine' Issue 78, March 95: Anything else you shouldn’t be talking about? “We’re planning to release ‘Begging You’ later in the year. It’ll be a double- or triple-length version. Bill Price who mixed the album struggled over it and thinks he can get much more out of it. That should be great.”
2013, David Wood wrote an piece for North West Music Store's website 'Promenade Music'. The article included: Neil Claxton, my co-director in Faith & Hope, was the remix producer for the Sone Roses 'Begging You' single 'Stone Corporation Vox' mix that was released on Geffen Records ten years after the 'So young' single. In 98 Neil was asked to do a further re-mix for the Silvertone Records 'The Stone Roses - The Remixes' album. 'Elephant Stone' the 'Mint Royale Remix' appeared on the album and the same track later appeared on Neil's own 'Mint Royale' album 'Pop Is' which was released on our record label.

November 1995 – Begging You Video.
From Simon Spence's Book 'War & Peace': The video intercut live footage from the European leg of 1995 tour with four kinky booted, bikini clad female dancer gyrating, each wearing a mask of one of the band members, plus indigenous dancing from around the world.''

The Stone Roses - November 1995 - Begging You Australian Release Date
Label: Geffen
Artwork: '' John Squire
Format: Australian Tour Edition CD. Catalog Number: GEFDM 22061
Begging You (Album Version)
Begging You (Lakota Mix)
Begging You (Stone Corporation Vox)
Begging You (Chic Mix)
Begging You (Young American Primitive Remix)
Begging You (Radio Edit Version)
Notes: Originally scheduled for 02 October 1995 to coincide with The Australian Tour, this only saw shelves a month later.

04 - 05 November 1995 - John Squire attends Oasis at Earls Court, London.
Notes: From 02 December 1995 - NME Magazine, John Squire Interview: He also spoke positively about the success enjoyed by Oasis, who have always cited the Roses as an inspiration. “I enjoyed seeing Oasis for the first time at Earls Court,” he said. “It was the audience as much as the band. They were mad for it.”

16 November 1995 - Mani's 33rd birthday
24 November 1995 - John Squire's 33rd birthday

Second Coming U.K. Tour
Tour Merchandise, official and unofficial included:
Tour Programme (Official, first made available on the Japanese Tour)

1995 Second Coming T-Shirt (White short sleeve. Cherub Logo, The Stone Roses red text above and Second Coming below) - Brand/Tag: Screen Stars - Fabric Blend: 100% Cotton - Color: White - Pit-to-Pit: 21" - Length: 30" - Label Size: L

1995 Second Coming Tour T-Shirt (UK Tour front) - Brand/Tag: N/A (X-Large 100% Combed Cotton (UK) (Yellow Tree Seed to Tree symbol) - Fabric Blend: 100% Cotton - Color: White - Pit-to-Pit: 22" - Length: 31" - Label Size: XL

1995 Second Coming Tour T-Shirt (UK Tour front, Grey Long Sleeve) - Brand/Tag: Screen Stars - Fabric Blend: 100% Cotton - Color: Grey - Pit-to-Pit: 23.5" - Length: 30" - Label Size: XL - Type: Long Sleeve

Unconfirmed if official: November 1995 - Black Long Sleeve Ringer T-Shirt. (Love Spreads design on the front with partial Second Coming abstract underneath, rear has second coming with cherub design and UK winter tour dates) Label notes: Made In England, EX.Large.

November 1995 - 1995 Second Coming Tour T-Shirt (Love Spreads sleeve design, without the 'Love Spreads' text on the front. Rear has the ticket stub design cherub but with the UK tour dates in the shield) - Brand/Tag: Screen Stars - Fabric Blend: 100% Cotton - Color: White- Pit-to-Pit: 23.5" - Length: 30" - Label Size: XL

November 1995 - Second Coming Tour 1995 T-Shirt (Green long sleeve. Cherub design on the heart. The Stone Roses Second Coming 1995 text over the cherub shield. Large cherub design on the rear with the UK winter tour dates) - Brand/Tag: Screen Stars Best - Fabric Blend: 100% Cotton - Color: Green - Pit-to-Pit: 20" - Length: 29" - Label Size: L - Type: Long Sleeve

28 November 1995 Tuesday - Spa, The Royal Hall, South Marine Drive, Bridlington * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
Soundcheck
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Sold Out Show. The start of the U.K. homecoming tour. DJ Madface would later support Ian on his first UK live shows (see June 1998).
The fly tour poster with John Squire's X-Ray noted 'We apologise for the break in transmission...the show goes on...'. According to the poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' Tickets were apparently limited to four per person, no booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.
I owned the 'Stoned Again' poster from the second coming tour, apparently bought from the Bridlington show. Not sure if it was official or not? It had a black and white photo of the band. John Squire had a British Railways t-shirt and had his arm round Mani. Mani wore a striped shirt and a jumper, shades with pony tail too. Robbie had a striped shirt and was facing the camera next to Ian. The text was in red.
See Media for 09 December 1995 - Melody Maker Magazine, 'Floral And Hardy' Taylor Parkes Review.
See Media for 09 December 1995 - NME Magazine, Review by Mark Sutherland.
See Media for February 1996 - Q Magazine, Article/Review by John Harris, the interview was conducted backstage after the soundcheck.
Johnny Carr said: ''Yes honestly, I WAS at this comeback gig. Arrived at Bridlington Spa (waiting for God or what) a couple of hours early and was greeted by loads of touts offering incredible money for tickets. No matter, cash or Roses? No competition. Went for a drink in this packed shitty dive and was informed by the manager that "we'll be even busier next week, Status Quo are coming." Didn't have the energy to explain that it just doesn't get any bigger than this. Went into the Spa and there was an electric buzz in the air, the like of which I've never felt before. Bar's open so I drink yet more tepid piss and then get ready for the happening. Ian Brown comes on stage wearing a dodgy festival hat but that is soon forgotten when the opening chords strike up. Not gonna take you through the gig but suffice to say that they again showed just what all the fuss had been about. Obviously, final track was a brilliant rendition of ‘Resurrection’, probably the best live track I have ever heard. There was a false post-gig feeling that the Roses were back with a bang but let's just remember that when this band were on form, they could not be bettered.''
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: Were you talking again? “No. There were two coaches on that tour. One was a coke coach and one wasn’t. There were 16 on one and five on the other. John travelled with the coke coach. He’d say ‘I travel with the crew’. Bullshit! He travelled with the coke, cos he couldn’t take coke in front of us cos we wouldn’t have it. All the way through that tour we wanted to smash coke. But he’s a grown man, you stop preaching to people about coke.”

30 November 1995 Thursday - Civic Hall, Wolverhampton * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Sold Out Show. According to the tour poster, programme and ticket stub, the date was scheduled for 30 November 1995. ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995'' Tickets were apparently limited to four per person, no booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.

M - The Stone Roses feature on the cover of VOX Magazine, December 1995, Issue 62
Notes: 'Flash In Japan' Photo of Ian Brown with fans in Japan on the cover.

M - 1995 - The Stone Roses appear in United We Stand (Late) Fanzine
Notes: Manchester United fanzine. See Media for the incomplete Interview with Mani & John.

M - 06-19 December 1995 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Select Magazine, £2.00
Notes: Full band photo. The special issue was released in a cereal box style sleeve "Let's Go To Work...Stone Roses" It included Raw Magazine, Nik Naks, Blur scratchcard, Cadbury's Twirl chocolate bar and a can of lemon Tango. Headline read 'We've Got To Blow People's Heads Off!!'
The cover of the magazine was edited and used for the "The End Of A Show" bootleg cover.
RAW, from the makers of Select Magazine, was featured in the limited edition Select Cereal Box Issue. John Robb, again, penned the article and interviewed Mani too. See Media for the RAW article and Select feature.

December 1995 - John Squire is confirmed as one of nine artists who have contributed a design to War Child for the ‘Help’ Christmas cards.

01 December 1995 Friday - Corn Exchange, Wheeler Street, Cambridge * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South /
encore: I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Sold Out Show. According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995'' Tickets were apparently limited to four per person, no booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.

02 December 1995 Saturday - The Brighton Centre, Kings Road, Brighton * Doors Open: 19:00 * Doors Open: 19:00 * Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Sold Out Show. This show was nearly cancelled after the news that Ian's son was taken to hospital, having suffered a fall at home. According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' No booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.

04 December 1995 Monday - Newport Centre, Kingsway, Newport * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Sold Out Show. A Cardiff City shirt was thrown on stage during the gig and Ian put the shirt on, prompting the Cardiff fans to start chanting their club nickname, Bluebirds. This aggravated rival Newport County and Swansea City fans in attendance, and fighting broke out. The arrests went into double figures, and the story featured on News At Ten the following night.
According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' No booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.
Swansea Jack said: I was at a Stone Roses gig in Newport many moons ago and Ian Brown put on a shirt thrown from the crowd which happened to be a yellow Cardiff shirt and that was the signal for the whole place to go absolutely mental. It was Cardiff v Newport and Swansea. In the end, the gig was broken up by riot police. I'd never seen anything like it.
Bootleg: Breaking Into Heaven 1995 (Made In Japan) CD-R - Audience Recording - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / (not listed on sleeve but includes the intro of Driving South)
Bootleg: Audience Recording (sourced from Video)
Video Bootleg: Stone Roses Newport Centre, Wales 04/12/95 - DVD-R
Video Bootleg: Brussels / Atlanta / Newport Video (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Originally Priced: £15.00) Video (PAL, NTSC) - Running Time (Approx): 3.5 hours (27 April 1995 - Luna Theatre, Brussels, Belgium (Filmed from the audience balcony - steady with good close-ups...) - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Elizabeth My Dear / Love Spreads / Good Times / I Am The Resurrection / Begging You / Made Of Stone / Driving South - 04 December 1995 Monday - Newport Centre, Kingsway, Newport (Slightly shaky, from audience) - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection - 14 May 1995 - The Atlanta Midtown Music Festival, Georgia, U.S.A.(Filmed from side of audience, good vantage point, close ups, in daytime, so good lighting) I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Love Spreads / I Am The Resurrection

05 December 1995 Tuesday - University, Exeter * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Sold Out Show. According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' No booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.

M - 05 December 1995 - The Stone Roses feature on the cover of The Big Issue, North West - Helping the homeless help themselves, Issue Number 34, 05-12 December 1995. Priced at 0.75p (45p of cover prices goes to the seller)
Notes: Full band photo featuring Reni. Headline read 'Stoned again. The Stone Roses, World exclusive interview'. Mani said: “Hopefully, it will establish a trend and make all those comfy, complacent music journalists work a bit harder. After all, they’re just a bunch of sixth-formers who’ve spent too long pogoing around their bedrooms with tennis rackets. Their views and opinions are no more important than anybody else’s.”

07 December 1995 Thursday - De Montfort Hall, Leicester, Leicestershire * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Good Times / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Sold Out Show. According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' No booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.
The bootleg title was probably taken from 17 December 1994 - Melody Maker Magazine which has the headline "Welcome To The Resurrection".
Broadcast: BBC Radio 1 ? Unconfirmed
Bootleg: Soundboard Recording - CD - Welcome To The Resurrection (1995 - catalogue number: HUNA003 Big Kahuna Records, U.K. Pressing) - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Bootleg: Soundboard Recording - CD-R / Tape - Leicester De Montford Hall (aka "Welcome To The Resurrection") (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "" CD Originally Priced: £11.00, Running Time (Approx): 70mins, Cassette originally priced: £4) I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Bootleg: Soundboard Recording - Cassette - Welcome To The Resurrection (WP5212 Warm Pig Recordings, Superferro Doly System, Made In Italy. Cassette Tape denotes the title "Resurrection") I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreaker / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine - Side 2 - Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Bootleg: Did That Sound Good - Vinyl Picture Disc (199?) - I Wanna Be Adored (27 February 1989 - Hacienda) / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister (27 February 1989 - Hacienda) / Made Of Stone (21 November 1989 - The Late Show) / Fools Gold (23 November 1989 - Top Of The Pops) / Sally Cinnamon (Stand Still - 24 October 1989 Tuesday - Kan-1 Hoken Hall) - Side B - Elizabeth My Dear (January 1989 - Live In The Studio) / Ten Storey Love Song (07 December 1995 Thursday - De Montfort Hall, Leicester) / Tears (07 December 1995 Thursday - De Montfort Hall, Leicester) / Love Spreads (07 December 1995 Thursday - De Montfort Hall, Leicester)
Bootleg: Did That Sound Good? (CD version of the Picture Disc with bonus tracks) CD-R - I Wanna Be Adored (27 February 1989 - Hacienda) / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister (27 February 1989 - Hacienda) / Made Of Stone (21 November 1989 - The Late Show) / Fools Gold (23 November 1989 - Top Of The Pops) / Sally Cinnamon (Stand Still - 24 October 1989 Tuesday - Kan-1 Hoken Hall) - Side B - Elizabeth My Dear (January 1989 - Live In The Studio) / Ten Storey Love Song (07 December 1995 Thursday - De Montfort Hall, Leicester) / Tears (07 December 1995 Thursday - De Montfort Hall, Leicester) / Love Spreads (07 December 1995 Thursday - De Montfort Hall, Leicester) / I Wanna Be Adored (24 March 1985 - Piccadilly Radio Session) / Heart On The Staves (24 March 1985 - Piccadilly Radio Session) / Tell Me (24 March 1985 - Piccadilly Radio Session) / Waterfall (1988 Demo) / Elephant Stone (1986 - Demo) / Shoot You Down (1988 Demo) / This Is The One (Demo) / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister (1986 - Dem
Bootleg: Sometime Burning (Includes tracks from Did That Sound Good plus bonus tracks) CD-R - I Wanna Be Adored (27 February 1989 - Hacienda) / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister (27 February 1989 - Hacienda) / Made Of Stone (21 November 1989 - The Late Show) / Fools Gold (23 November 1989 - Top Of The Pops) / Sally Cinnamon (Stand Still - 24 October 1989 Tuesday - Kan-1 Hoken Hall) - Side B - Elizabeth My Dear (January 1989 - Live In The Studio) / Ten Storey Love Song (07 December 1995 Thursday - De Montfort Hall, Leicester) / Tears (07 December 1995 Thursday - De Montfort Hall, Leicester) / Love Spreads (07 December 1995 Thursday - De Montfort Hall, Leicester) / Fools Gold (Remix) / Elephant Stone (12inch) / Begging You (Stone Corporation Vox) / Begging You (Cox's Ultimatum Mix) / Begging You (Overworld Mix) / Begging You (Lakota Mix)

08 December 1995 Friday - Brixton Academy, London * Doors Open: 19:00-23:00 * Ticket Price: £15.00 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Sold Out Show. According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' No booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Brixton Academy (8th) (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "Steady, but gets a bit distorted when it gets loud. Drums are slightly lost too...The guitar is a bit dominating, but the performance from all concerned is brilliant, even Ian is pretty good." Cassette Originally Priced: £2.50, Running Time (Approx): 80mins ) - Tape
Video Bootleg: Brixton Academy (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). VHS Originally Priced: £15.00, DVD £17) Video (VHS PAL, NTSC) - Running Time (Approx): 3 hours - 08 December 1995 Friday - Brixton Academy / 09 December 1995 Saturday - Brixton Academy
Bootleg Video: Brixton Night 1 (Video) Amateur Audience Video
Video Bootleg: Brixton Academy 8th & 9th December 1995 (Cover shows a photo of John playing live, rear has tracklist and notes same set both nights) - VHS

09 December 1995 Saturday - Brixton Academy, London * All Nighter * Doors Open: 21:00-06:00 (Sunday Morning) * Ticket Price: £20.00 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Sold Out Show. Good Times includes the longer intro, which would feature on some performances on this tour. All-nighter show, DJ's played until the band came on around 23:00 and played until 01:00am. According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' No booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.
From 06 March 2009 - Uncut Magazine Interview with Ian Brown: Brixton in ‘95 was our best show after Glasgow Green that we ever played...''
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: I think the all-nighter at Brixton [December, ’95] was the best we ever did here.
Miranda Sawyer (Observer writer and OMM columnist) The Best 25 Gigs Of All Time article: ''...It was hard to see them, through the smoke and the hooded tops, but I remember Ian Brown, an elf, in pointed knitted hat with ear flaps; John Squire, all in white; Mani sporting a bonnet that looked like a big pie. Robbie Maddix, replacing Reni on drums, and Nigel Ippinson, on keyboards, were irrelevant...''
Bootleg: Audience Recording - Brixton Academy (9th) (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "Steady, but gets a bit distorted when it gets loud. Drums are slightly lost too...Probably the most emotional Second Coming performance from all concerned, but Squire dominates a bit too much...This is the one time during the Second Coming tour that Ian actually sounds up for a gig, and he lets the crowd sing the first part of Tightrope. He also plays harmonica in the only time the Roses played a jam at the start of Good Times. A really passionate gig." Cassette Originally Priced: £2.50, Running Time (Approx): 80mins) - Tape
Bootleg Video: Brixton Night 2 (Video) Amateur Audience Video
Video Bootleg: Brixton Academy (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Originally Priced: £15.00) Video (PAL, NTSC) - Running Time (Approx): 3 hours - 08 December 1995 Friday - Brixton Academy / 09 December 1995 Saturday - Brixton Academy
Video Bootleg: Brixton Academy - DVD-R
Bootleg: CD-R (Audience Recording) - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / I Am The Resurrection

11 December 1995 Monday - Rivermead Leisure Complex, Richfield Avenue, Reading * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Sold Out Show. According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' No booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.
Jonathan Flemming said: I had only got into the Roses a year before this gig, but come the time of the gig I was a very big fan. I remember arriving at the venue 10 minutes before the doors opened and the queue was lining all the way around the building. You could feel the sense of anticipation and excitement in the crowd, and the fact that there was no support meant that the atmosphere was electric when they finally arrived on stage. When the intro tape began, people surged to the front, and all of a sudden a couple of shadowy figures appeared on stage. From my vantage point it was difficult to see who, but all of a sudden a flash from a camera revealed to everyone that it was Ian Brown himself. As I Wanna Be Adored started, the excitement I felt was immense. All of the Roses played very well that night, with the highlight for me being I Am The Resurrection - top class!.

12 December 1995 Tuesday - University of East Anglia, UEA, Norwich * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Sold Out Show. According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' No booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.
D Hambury took media photographs.

13 December 1995 Wednesday - The Town And Country Club, Cookridge Street, Leeds, LS2 * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Sold Out Show. According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' No booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.
Partially broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1995.
The incomplete broadcast was re-aired on BBC Radio 1 after the debut airing of the December 1997 'I Wanna Be Adored' Radio documentary.
Subsequent re-broadcasts of the show on BBC included 'Driving South' and 'Good Time' (which were originally dropped from the debut 'In Concert' broadcast).
There was a revised running order re-broadcast 2008 too for the BBC 6Music Live Hour Session BBC Radio 6.
The Radio 1 broadcast became a popular among bootleggers. Regarding the CD bootlegs available, Stoned And Dethroned and Mirage Of Madchester both have an annoying cut between Ten Storey Love Song and Daybreak.
Broadcast: 1995 - BBC Radio 1
Broadcast: July 2008 - BBC6 Music, from the BBC Radio Archive.
Broadcast: 14 January 2013 Monday 03:00 - 6 Music Live Hour Session, BBC Radio 6 "The Stone Roses Live - The Stone Roses perform live at Leeds Town and Country Club, from 1995. Tracks include: She Bangs The Drum / Waterfall / Ten Story Love Song / Tightrope / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South. Duration: 32 minutes."
Official: BBC In Concert 662 - The Stone Roses (February 1996 BBC Radio International - ‎BBC World Service TCD 1087, BBC Transcription Disc. No announcements on disc. Running time: 52:48) CD - "9" Applause (faded in)' / She Bangs The Drums 3:40 / Waterfall 5:08 / Ten Storey Love Song 3:57 / Daybreak 9:29 / Breaking Into Heaven 7:16 / Your Star Will Shine 2:44 / Tightrope 3:57 / Love Spreads 6:00 / Good Times 4:02 / Driving South 4:56
Bootleg: Rock Garden (Prego 534 (C) Prego Dischi 1999 Prego Dischi Via bella Ciccolina 69 Roma. Silver Factory Pressed Disc.) FM Recording (Red Sleeve with band photo.) I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / I Am The Resurrection
Bootleg: Rock Garden () FM Recording (Different pressing, White Sleeve with a different band photo to the above. Catalog Number: KTS 0534, Kiss The Stone. Silver Factory Pressed Disc.) CD - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / I Am The Resurrection
Bootleg: Rock Garden "Leeds Town and Country Club (aka "Stoned and Dethroned?")" (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Originally Priced: £12 CD. £4 Tape. "*IAWS Exclusive - put out by this site - lowest generation guaranteed*". Ryan, a mega fan, said: "Will had a CDr copy of my Rock Garden CD (Prego Label) and the BBC Transciption Disc (In Concert 662). Will purchased 10 copies from me to cover the cost of my original purchase price of the Transcription Disc, which I purchased from Australia.") I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection - CD / Tape
Bootleg: Stoned And Dethroned (Catalog Number: DAT 010, DAT Label. Made In Japan. Silver Factory Pressed Disc.) CD
Bootleg: Rock Garden (2003, 'Rock Garden 2003 3 STEREO.' Gold face CD-R with printed text. Uses 'Prego 534' Photocopied 1999 Rock Garden Sleeves.) FM Recording - CD-R
Bootleg: Live At Leeds - Limited Edition (Black and white sleeve and labels, in the style of The Who's Live At Leeds release.) Vinyl - Side 1 - She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven - Side 2 - Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South
Bootleg: Pre-FM (q'd>comp'd>S1'd>BBE'd>L3'd. Leaked by thir13en) - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection

Bootleg: DAB Broadcast BBC Radio 6, 2008 - Leeds Town And Country Club 1995 (radioCat source. stone_roses_live.ogg 27:57 (Ogg Vorbis 11.6 MB file), Created 16 July 2008. ) - She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Love Spreads / Good Times / Driving South

Bootleg: Mirage Of Madchester (CD & 25 August 1996 Sunday - Reading 96 DVD. A-tera Records, A-TERA-041 Z01) CD (FM/Pre-FM) 13 December 1995 - Town & Country Club, Leeds - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection - DVD (TV Broadcast) 26 August 1996 - Reading Festival, Reading - She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / High Time / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / I Am The Resurrection / Ice Cold Cube / Breaking Into Heaven
Bootleg: FM Broadcast () Tape
Bootleg: FM Broadcast (Steve Lamaq 'In Concert' BBC Evening Session 1995) Tape
Bootleg: FM Broadcast - Live Leeds & Feile 95 (Sleeve uses the 1989 Pennie Smith photo of the band with Reni in hat and shades, Mani and Ian look right whilst John and Reni look to the camera. Side 2 includes an excerpt from the Feile Show. TDK tape simply stickered "The Stone Roses 'Live'") Tape

15 December 1995 Friday - Royal Court, Roe Street, Liverpool * Doors Open: 19:30 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
Soundcheck:
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Sold Out Show. Ian wore a Santa Claus hat throughout the set. According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' No booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.
Robbie Maddix is interviewed, see Media for February 1996 - Rhythm Magazine, Interview with Robbie Maddix by Pat Reid.
From From February 1996 - Rhythm Magazine, Interview with Robbie Maddix by Pat Reid: Working as a rhythm section with Mani must be quite a laugh though. After the Liverpool soundcheck the rest of the band depart while Robbie poses for his photos, but Mani remains, playing a long, laid-back riff on his Rickenbacker. He nods, gives a wide, stoned grin, and closes his eyes again, lost in what he's playing. Cool...
Bootleg: Liverpool Royal Court - Audience Recording - (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "" Cassette Originally Priced: £2.50, Running Time (Approx): 80mins) - Tape
Bootleg: Live In Liverpool 1995 (Made In Japan) 2 CD-R - Audience Recording
Bootleg: Mancs In The House As Well As The Scouse - 2 CD-R - Audience Recording
Bootleg: A Tarquin Live Master () - Audience Recording

16 December 1995 Saturday - Ice Rink, Hills Head Road, Whitley Bay, Tyne And Wear, NE258HP * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Sold Out Show. The only time Ian speaks is to threaten someone in the crowd "Whoever just hit me with a penny, see me backstage after the show..and I'll stab yer'". According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' No booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.
Bootleg: Partial Audience Recording - Missing: Intro / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak .
Bootleg: Whitley Bay - Audience Recording (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "Some lovely crisp treble, but with deep bass too - a really nice recording. For the quality and the performance of Tears and Love Spreads, which are superb, and to hear Ian threaten someone in the crowd who is throwing things at him." Cassette Originally Priced: £2.50, Running Time (Approx): 55mins) Breaking Into Heaven (last 2 mins) / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection - Tape
Bootleg: Nine Miles High (A PGP Production) (Sleeve has two soft toy cows in front of a stone roses poster) (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "" CD Originally Priced: £11.00, Running Time (Approx): 74mins, Cassette originally priced: £3.50) I Wanna Be Adored (Hacienda, 1989) / Elephant Stone (Rare mix) aka Elephant Stone 7inch Backwards / Ten Storey Love Song (28 December 1995 Thursday - Sheffield Arena) / Daybreak (Benicassim, 1996) / Tears (Whitley Bay, 1995) / Where Angels Play (Tokyo, 1989) / Sally Cinnamon (Luxor, Germany, 1989) / Sugar Spun Sister (1986 Chorlton Demo) / Going Down (1986 Chorlton Demo) / Mersey Paradise (Blackpool, 1989) / Fools Gold (Spike Island, 1990) / This Is The One (Manchester, 1988) / Begging You (Stockholm, 1995) / I Am The Resurrection (Leicester, 1995) - CD-R / Tape
Bootleg Video: (Video) Amateur Audience Video

17 December 1995 Sunday - Music Hall, Aberdeen * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South /
encore: I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Steve Davidson is in the audience. Steve would later play guitar in The Stone Roses tribute band 'Fool's Gold' and then perform with Ian Brown on tour in 2004 and record with him too.
According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' No booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.
Jonathan Stephen said: You cannot overestimate how massive The Stone Roses are/were in Aberdeen. When the announcement was made in July 1995 that they were playing 2 gigs in Glasgow and 1 in Aberdeen, no-one could believe it - they were playing here. Not even in the biggest venue but certainly the best. The queue for tickets was unbelievable. Our lot were the first outside Aberdeen Box Office (next door to the Music Hall, incidentally) at about half eleven pm (the doors were due to open at 9am) but by 4am there were hundreds of people waiting to make sure they got their hands on some. The cops were asking us who the hell The Stone Roses were. They couldn't believe they'd never heard of a band that caused this much fuss. The local newspaper ‘Evening Express‘ carried on the front page the following day a photo of us queuing up with the headline "Why Stone Roses grow on you“. After that it was a case of waiting for December. The old bootlegs were getting more airplay the closer we got to the date. Pessimists saying that it would never live up to the hype that was being created locally and then the day came. I've never seen an atmosphere like it at a gig in my life (I've been to a fair few). When the lights went down and the intro to Breaking Into Heaven was on, everyone was screaming the place down. Then they appeared (Ian Brown wearing an Aberdeen FC sunhat) and the Music Hall went berserk. The whole place was bouncing. Even up in the seated balcony everyone was on their feet. Squire's guitar rocked the joint, even Ian's voice sounded brilliant aided with the backing vocals of 1,500 others. They were all very receptive to the reaction. Mani got involved in some football banter "Thanks for Alex Ferguson" which started a huge ‘Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Aberdeen‘ chant only to be drowned out by the intro to Love Spreads. Brilliant. They came back on for an encore of I Am The Resurrection in their dressing gowns after which Ian screamed “Thank You, Scotland rules, you're fucking rocking." Then he threw Robbie Maddix's drumsticks into the crowd. This, of course was their first time in Scotland since Glasgow Green and they seemed to enjoy themselves (more so than at Sheffield Arena, which I also went to). Afterwards, everyone I spoke to talked about how the Roses had exceeded all expectations. They were phenomenal that night. It all fell into place. Me and my mate managed to get backstage somehow and met the band (except for John Squire who Mani said was "Away being shy somewhere"). Tapped a bit for a joint off Ian Brown and spilled Mani's beer which capped off one of the greatest nights of my life and that of a thousand others.''

19 December 1995 - Barrowlands, Glasgow * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' No booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.

20 December 1995 Wednesday - Barrowland, Glasgow * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South /
encore: Elizabeth My Dear / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: The only time Elizabeth My Dear is played during the U.K. Tour.
According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' No booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.
Brian Taylor said: '' Better Than The Green. So it came the 20th December 1995. 4.30pm and we clock off the dayshift. My good mate ‘Grapey' and myself are standing sour-faced and sullen as we can’t find a ticket in the whole of the West of Scotland...well, not for under 150 quid. I don't know what made us jump on the train and head straight into Glasgow that night, but is seemed a good idea at the time. We had no tickets, hardly much cash and no way of getting back home. It would be eventful, that's for sure. On reaching the Gallowgate at about 6.45pm, the place was absolutely buzzing. Mop Tops everywhere, T-shirts and Beanie hats as far as you could see. ‘The Barras’ is always in good spirits on gig nights but it was absolutely electric. ‘Resurrection’ was pumping out of ‘Baird's Bar’ and ‘The Saracen's Head’ was singing along across the other side of the street. There were fans everywhere. Probably more without tickets than had, and to go along with them, touts in every door every 10 yards. "200 quid per pair" was the first quote we got; a polite "No thanks" was the reply this Mancunian got. And then anything from 70 pounds to 120 pounds a single ticket and then the guy who was really taking the biscuit claiming to all who listened 250 pounds would get them backstage for the full night. "Aye right ye are mate". Finally we decided it was a lost cause - we had 50 pounds each. Sure, one of us could have got in if we chipped together, but who would it be?
As we walked away a small tap on the shoulder changed the night completely.
"Are you guys wanting in there?" He was about 5 ft 2", 60 year old and not very well dressed. He had a nice wee wooly bunnet on his head.
"Aye we want in but they're wanting 80 pounds each, we cannae afford it Mr?"
"How much can ye afford? Coz I can get ye in, without a ticket. All these punters are daft, they should just have spoken to me!"
After a little discussion and to assess whether we thought this jake was the full shilling or not we decided we could afford 30 pounds each.
"30 pounds each," I stated, waiting on him knocking me back. "But you don't get the cash until we are in that building at the top of the stairs walking into the arena. How you getting us in anyway?"
"The wife she works the ticket booth, she phoned me a wee while ago. Come down she said I have the guestlist in front of me. You escort as many as you like past the security, come over to the booth I will sign them in, no questions asked. The guy on the door is cool with it, will give him something later for his trouble. It's going to be a goldmine she said".
Well this wee chap's wife was right. A goldmine it certainly was, he was unwilling to discuss how many he had previously taken in and for how much but you just knew a lot of those high-to-do guestlist punters weren't getting in. Good enough for them I say, they should buy a ticket like everybody else. So we starts the walk, past the security door as he said, up to the booth where the woman asks: "Who is this then the Willie?" "It's Billy and BiIly," the wee guy replies, and the wife duly scores another two names off the list. I nearly wet myself. Coz I knew we were only 20 yards away from getting in. And ‘Grapey' and myself did our best to keep our laughter in. We then went past the final ticket check with the words: "On the guest list then, I've to show them where the hall was" We were ushered through I couldnae believe it, walking up the stairs getting greeted by the oversized picture of Wendy James that's still there to this day into the Bar area by the cloakroom. "Well how easy was that?" asks our new friend. "No bother big man" and I gave him the 60 pounds as promised. "You guys have a good night, I've some friends to be seeing," and away he went never to be seen again. Now think of this. The guy has probably been taking people in all night, from around 7pm - 9pm say, when the band come on. The whole process took about five mins from intro to inside, most people probably gave him more than the 30 pounds each we did and he probably wouldn't accept any less. You lot do the math, a great night's work on his part. We were now in the gig. Yeah, 20 pounds left in my pocket meant 10 pounds for a T-shirt, two beers and bus fare up the road with a fish supper. See the gig first of course. When the Roses do appear at roughly 9.15pm the place goes absolutely ape- shit electric and we cannot help talking about 1990 ‘The Green‘ and how this will compare. At ‘The Green’ though, I am only 15. It is the third ever concert of my life, too many idiots are out of their tree for my liking, the band play good but not great, the sound is muffled slightly and it is more about the event and not the music and that has never sat well with me, even to this day. Somewhat cheated was how I felt by the whole thing. And quite clearly at this time of his career Ian Brown could not sing live for his dinner at his aunties. A FACT. But tonight. Tonight will eclipse ‘The Green’ and there are many factors and opinions I will put forward for this....''

22 December 1995 Friday - The Apollo, Hardwick Green, Manchester * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine Again / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Sold Out Show. The Intro (Approx 4 minutes of) Breaking Into Heaven is used as the Introduction Tape to the stage whilst The Fozz was used as the outro tape when the set finished. Homecoming show for DJ Madface too.
According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' No booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.
Oasis members Liam Gallagher, Bonehead and Noel Gallagher were in attendance, and later said that John Squire "soloed like a bastard."
March 2000 - Four Four Two Magazine Mani: “When the Roses were playing in Manchester, I remember looking up into the seats and Bonehead and Liam and Noel were there and that, but Brian was there with Peter Schmeichel. It goes to show that not all footballers are into George Benson. But I think footballers respect musicians and vice versa.”
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix regarding 22 & 23 December 1995: ''We could have played the M.E.N a couple of nights, but Ian and John thought it would be special to play to a more intimate crowd, because it was our homecoming gig. Mani and myself were up for the M.E.N or Nynex, as it was known at the time. The bigger the better, as far as we were concerned, but we understood Ian and John’s point. The gigs were crazy – we had loads of people at the sound check: Oasis, Charlatans and some others I can’t remember. I remember the guest-list was the biggest I’ve ever seen, literally hundreds of names. When some people couldn’t get in, they just rushed the door, no way were they gonna miss a Manchester Roses gig. I liked playing the Apollo – the sound was compact and the people were close. At one point, Ian told the lighting engineer to turn the lights on the people so we could see them. I was looking for family and friends, but saw some Man United players with their hands in the air: Peter Schmeichel, Brian McClair and Gary Neville amongst others. We were all Man United fans, so that was great to see. We never put them on the guest list – they came off their own back, so that made it special. Another thing that happened was while we were playing, Ian spotted a Reni banner, got it off the person and started waving it on the stage. As if to say, Reni has gone but he’s not forgotten. I thought it was a top thing to do. After all, Reni was a friend.''
Stone Roses fan, Billy said: I was fifteen at the time and this was the event me and my mates had been waiting for since early summer when tickets went on sale. Like everyone else, we got down to the Apollo before the doors opened and joined the longest, most over-excited queue I've ever waited in outside a gig. Typically, it was pissing it down, but everyone was far too hyper to care. The atmosphere inside the Apollo was one of total anticipation, I still couldn't believe they were actually going to turn up. The wait seemed to go on forever, the excitement really began to build once the stage was set up. The sound system was playing a lot of dancey, northern soul stuff. The lights went down and the machines started to cough out tonnes of smoke. The recorded intro to Breaking into Heaven kicked in, but still no Roses. I was right down the front in the pit and after a couple of minutes the stage was totally covered by the smoke, the searchlights waving madly. By this point the crowd was totally frantic, everyone craning to see through the smoke. As the bass kicked in to I Wanna Be Adored, I could just about pick out the shape of John Squire. The smoke cleared to reveal Ian Brown, face framed by Parka hood, staring out into the crowd. John's guitar kicked in, 4,000 ecstatic Mancs singing every note. To be honest, the start of the gig may be etched into my memory, but the rest of it is a bit of a blur. It was the most energetic, excited crowd I've been in, at one point, possibly during She Bangs The Drums, my section of the pit fell to the floor domino-style.
Ian's voice was excellent, at least to me (one reason why I'll never listen to the bootleg) except at the start of Your Star Will Shine when he'd had a smoke. The band was tight, and louder than anyone else I've seen at the Apollo. The Daybreak/Breaking Into Heaven section was heavy and the transition between the songs was wonderful. The Tears guitar change-over is really clear in my mind. They did I Am The Resurrection as the encore, Ian saying ‘What do you want for Christmas?‘ or something similar, half the crowd shouting for Resurrection, the other half for Sally Cinnamon. I'm sure the crowd's singing to Resurrection could be heard a couple of miles away. The lights came on, The Fozz played, and that was it. It was the best gig I had seen, and probably always will be. I'll never listen to the bootleg, and only play others from that tour very occasionally. Sometimes memory is better than reality. I can't rate the quality of the performance, I was too excited. The band was a legend, a dream, they were my heroes, could never ever had lived up to my expectations, but that night they did. I will always wish I could have seen them in 89/90, but that's just greed, I'm more than lucky to have seen them once.''
Bootleg: Manchester Apollo (22nd) - Audience Recording (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "" Cassette Originally Priced: £3.50, Running Time (Approx): 70mins) Intro / I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine Again / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Bootleg: Nine Miles High (Odilon Records, OR-002, Made In Japan.) 2 CD-R - Audience Recording
Bootleg: Nine Miles High (Odilon Records, OR-002, Made In Japan. 1 CD-R with printed label. Label features title, Odilon record logo, OR-002 and date 'dec.22 1995 Manchester Apollo' with compact disc digital audio recordable logo. Disc has a square tile pattern in the background.) CD-R - Audience Recording
Bootleg: Nine Miles High (Odilon Records, 72608, Made In Japan. Sleeve is slightly different. The images have a blue tint and the rear sleeve insert spines are blue with white writing. They do not mention the OR-002 catalog number anymore but the rear sleeve does. Sleeve is printed on a very glossy photo paper. CD-R is matt white, with black text on label. This is a direct bootleg copy (Yes a bootlegged bootleg) of the above) 1 CD-R - Audience Recording
Bootleg: A Tarquin Live Master () - Audience Recording

23 December 1995 Saturday - The Apollo, Ardwick Green, Manchester * Doors Open: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £12.50 * Support Act(s): DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine Again / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Sold Out Show. During Daybreak, Ian was handed a banner from the audience that read 'Reni lives'. He held it up for the audience to see, it was met with extra cheers and applause during the song. Ian wore a 'No Fear' snood on stage.
Former drummer Simon Wolstencroft was backstage at the show, he wouldn't see John Squire again until the the 02 December 2011 - Justice Tonight Concert.
According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale Wednesday 19th July 1995, Limited To Four Per Person.'' No booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.
Mick Middles, who wrote the biography 'Breaking Into Heaven', said about: "Even a seasoned gig-goer such as the author went into a state of ecstasy at the sight and sound of the Roses in full flight; others in attendance, including Noel Gallagher, were equally stunned at what the band seemed to be pulling off, despite the loss of Reni."
From 2001 I Am Without Shoes Exclusive Mani Interview: > IAWS: What happened to the Roses live album that you mentioned just before Squire left? You mentioned in one interview that you were mixing the Manchester Apollo gigs… > Mani: I don’t know, really. We recorded a lot of shows from that tour. I guess it all fell apart when the band split. IAWS: If Silvertone had that recording, you could guarantee it would be out by now! Mani: Yeah…[rest of answer deleted to prevent libel case!]
Bootleg: In’t Milk Brilliant? - (Bonus Tracks: 07 June 1990 Thursday - Maysfield Leisure Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland - Sally Cinnamon / (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister / Standing Here) 2 CD-R - Audience Recording
Bootleg: In’t Milk Brilliant? - (Probably a straight copy from the above CD, same bonus tracks too) (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "" 2CD Originally Priced: £16.00, Running Time (Approx):90mins) 2 CD-R / Tape

M - The Stone Roses Interview features in 23-30 December 1995 - Melody Maker Magazine
Notes: See Media for the complete article.

28 December 1995 Thursday - Sheffield Arena, Sheffield * Doors Open: 18:00, Show Starts: 19:00 * Ticket Price: £16.50 * Support Act(s): Black Grape, * DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine Again / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
Notes: Sold Out Show. Good Times includes Ian Brown playing the Harmonica. According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale 9AM Wednesday 27 September. Limited To Four Per Person.'' No booking fee on cash purchases at venue box office.
Photos and a review feature in 13 January 1996 - NME Magzine, see Media for the complete article, an excerpt from review "Blame John Squire, dressing up like the Wallace half of Wallace and Gromit is obviously no hindrance to the man's musical dexterity, judging by the way his guitar sprawls, scrawls and generally falls about the place..."
Grahame Rae Said: ''Older and wiser (see Glasgow Green 1990 entry), I saw them at Sheffield at the end of the Second Coming tour. Memory fully active this time, I was treated to the sad (but you just knew he'd be alright and it was funny) sight of Shaun Ryder reading his lyrics from a sheet of paper, repeating the same line so many times the whole band turned to look at him, and Kermit the rapper (I think) bouncing across the stage to give him a dunt during Black Grape supporting. He then started singing the rest of the song, like a skipping record. He totally wasn't there for a good 30 seconds. Lights went down, Breaking Into Heaven intro comes on, the obviously not very matey Roses (well, three quarters of them) appeared, Adored starts, all looks great, then the drummer starts his best Guns N Roses impersonation. Don't know how you feel about the ‘non proper’ lineup but it didn't sound too good from a drumming perspective. Ian Brown fluffed a few lines, regularly didn't try to hit a high note, always seeming to sing them an octave lower than even the audience. Kept making high pitched monkey noises. Mani looked like a man possessed, I think knowing what we do now he could see this might be the second last show (with Squire). As far as I know he was already lined up for Primal Scream if it went wrong after he realised John Squire was writing songs and keeping them to himself.'' Overall though, really enjoyed it, ignored the drums, had half of my body on the cover of NME (believe me, I didn't even keep it, other than the guys I was with, nobody in the world would have known it was me) and left happy. Ears ringing, dressed in a t-shirt in the snow.''
Bootleg: Sheffield Arena - Audience Recording - Tape *missing I Am The Resurrection
Bootleg: Sheffield Arena - Audience Recording (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "" Cassette Originally Priced: £3.00, Running Time (Approx): 90mins) Tape
Bootleg: The End Of A Show - Top Of The World 1st Days / The End Of A Show 2nd Day (1996, DAT Label, Cat. No. S-DAT-021 / S-DAT-022. 4 CD Box Set includes small plastic bag with fake marijuana buds and a pin/badge that has a marijuana leaf and the words "One Love" printed on it. Back cover reads "The Stone Roses The End Of A Show John Sqire Last Gig limited 4CD box set". "Squire" is mispelled on the box.) - 4 CD - CD1 - 28 December 1995 Thursday - Sheffield Arena - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine Again - CD2 - Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection - CD3 - 29 December 1995 Friday - Wembley Arena - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine Again - CD4 - Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection - Daybreak (Live Japan 1995) / Breaking Into Heaven (Live Japan 1995) / Breaking into Heaven (Studio Edit)
Bootleg: Top Of The World 1st Days - (Copy of the silver press) 2 CD-R
Bootleg: Nine Miles High (A PGP Production) (Sleeve has two soft toy cows in front of a stone roses poster) (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "" CD Originally Priced: £11.00, Running Time (Approx): 74mins, Cassette originally priced: £3.50) I Wanna Be Adored (Hacienda, 1989) / Elephant Stone (Rare mix) aka Elephant Stone 7inch Backwards / Ten Storey Love Song (28 December 1995 Thursday - Sheffield Arena) / Daybreak (Benicassim, 1996) / Tears (Whitley Bay, 1995) / Where Angels Play (Tokyo, 1989) / Sally Cinnamon (Luxor, Germany, 1989) / Sugar Spun Sister (1986 Chorlton Demo) / Going Down (1986 Chorlton Demo) / Mersey Paradise (Blackpool, 1989) / Fools Gold (Spike Island, 1990) / This Is The One (Manchester, 1988) / Begging You (Stockholm, 1995) / I Am The Resurrection (Leicester, 1995) - CD-R / Tape

29 December 1995 Friday - Wembley Arena, Wembley, London * Doors Open: 18:30, Show Starts 19:30 * Ticket Price: £16.50 * Support Act(s): Manic Street Preachers, Bad Man Wagon, DJ Madface
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine Again / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection
encore: Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix cover by the Roses' roadies)
Notes: Tears goes for over seven and half minutes in an epic jam, dwarfing the album version. Cressa (former Stone Roses technican & band friend) was a member of support act Bad Man Wagon. The band's roadies "Second Coming Crew" including Cressa played a cover version of Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze and Ian came on stage after and thanked the crew. Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream) was at the show. John Squire leaves the band after this show.
According to the tour poster ''Tickets On Sale 9AM Wednesday 27 September. Limited To Four Per Person.''
See Media for 13 January 1996 - Melody Maker Magazine, Live Review by Everett True.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed ''During the UK tour, John became a little distant, not that you would think something was terribly wrong but he was a bit quiet with not much to say. When you’re in a big band, it is easy sometimes to get a bit complacent and let things tick along without much effort. I think John might have felt that’s what was happening to the Roses. There is always someone to do things for you, except play of course. I asked Ian and Mani if they felt that John was ok, but they said sometimes he can be like that, just a bit reserved. So nothing could have prepared us for what happened after the Wembley gig, which was sold out, and we rocked the place. It was a triumphant gig. The second night of Brixton was top but this was Wembley, and we didn’t disappoint. After the gig, John left early and that was the last time we played together. Ian and Mani were devastated. They couldn’t believe all that they had gone through was over, and as far as they could see, for no reason.''
From June 1998 - United We Stand Interview, Mani said: How did that move come about? "I kidnapped Bobby Gillespie on the last night of the Roses tour. I'd known him for years from doing E's at clubs in London and he was buzzing for it. That was a year and a half before the split. The Scream are a good band to be with because they don't change their beliefs for nobody. They can be mad on tour but I can hold my own with the best of them, don't worry about me."...
Bootleg: Wembley Arena - Audience Recording (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "Plenty of reasons - this was the legend that is John Squire's last performance with the Roses, a moment in history, and he plays brilliantly. Also for the roadies cover, and Mani taking the mic to shout at the crowd. Also hear Ian play brief harmonica on Good Times. This gig also clocks in at 85 mins, one of the longest, if not the longest sets the Roses ever did." Cassette Originally Priced: £3.50, Running Time (Approx): 85mins) I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine Again / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection / encore: Purple Haze (cover by the Roses' roadies) - Tape
Bootleg: Wembley Arena (Direct From DAT) Audience Recording - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine Again / Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection / encore: Purple Haze (cover by the Roses' roadies) - Tape
Bootleg: The End Of A Show - Top Of The World 1st Days / The End Of A Show 2nd Day (1996, DAT Label, Cat. No. S-DAT-021 / S-DAT-022) Factory Pressed Silver 4 CD set - Audience Recording - CD1 - 28 December 1995 Thursday - Sheffield Arena - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine Again - CD2 - Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection - CD3 - 29 December 1995 Friday - Wembley Arena - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine Again - CD4 - Tightrope / Tears / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection - Daybreak (Live Japan 1995) / Breaking Into Heaven (Live Japan 1995) / Breaking into Heaven (Studio Edit)

1996
1996 - John Squire creates the art:
‘Cornflakes and Pink Alginate’ (plaster of paris, packing crate, 14"x10");
‘Do It Yourself‘ (plaster bandage, clay, cellulose and acrylic);
‘Love Is The Law’ (acrylic on calico with clay and epoxy resin, 28" x 28"). Information taken from John Squire's official website: Love Is The Law (1996) Acrylic, resin, calico and clipboard (28"x28").
‘WarchiId Surfboard’ (vinyl lettering on polypropylene, 8' x 3').

The Stone Roses - 24 January 1996 - The Complete Stone Roses Video Japanese Release Date
Notes: BMG Victor Music Video. VCD.

M - February 1996 - The Stone Roses Interview appears in Q Magazine
Notes: See Media for the Interview and article by John Harris.

Robbie Maddix - 1996 - Robbie Maddix V2 Music Publishing Demo
Inside Out / New Day
Notes: Circa 1996 V2 Group Advance Cassette.

20 February 1996 - Ian Brown's 33rd birthday

February 1996 - Steve 'Adge' Atheron steps down and quits as tour manager.
From 06 April 1996 - Ian Brown & John Squire feature on the cover of NME (New Musical Express) Magazine, 85p: Whiley told NME: Steve Adge, the Roses long-standing tour manager, also left the band three weeks ago. It is understood Adge, who had been with the band since their inception and was in charge of their world tour, will now go into full-time management.
He said: "I'm just as shocked as everybody else."

M - March 1996- The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Japanese Rockin' On 3 Magazine
Notes: in this interview, Ian said, "By the end of March, the live album, May and June. Will definitely release new work! "

21 March 1996 Thursday - John Squire leaves The Stone Roses
Notes: John Squire telephoned Mani, Robbie & Ian regarding his decision to leave the band.
From John Squire Interview 18 May 1997 - Sunday Mail, Scottish Daily Record: At the time, brief official statements explaining the reason for John's departure hinted at a breakdown in communication, especially between him and Brown. "That's pretty accurate," he says. "The final nudge was a letter from our lawyer saying that positive noises were being made about going back into the studio. "I mean when it gets to that stage you know it's time to get out of a situation like that. "It was no secret that on the last tour, I spent all my time with the crew and that there wasn't much co-operation between me and Ian. And people have said I was stealing the limelight on stage because Ian couldn't sing any more." But John takes the start of the split further back. He said it all began to go wrong when the original drummer Reni left. "When he left, the chemistry just wasn't the same," he said.
A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed "You were with the band when John Squire quit. Can you describe the reaction of the band? Ian and Mani were very shaken as was I, when John called us up to tell us he had left."
Ian Brown Interview from Uncut Magazine, June 2006, Issue 109: You often blame the Roses fall-out on John’s cocaine intake. Is that why you have been so virulently anti-cocaine ever since? “I was anti-cocaine before that, as I was a punk-rocker and against all those dinosaur cocaine groups. It was a city-boy drug, a vacuous thing. I was devastated when he got into it, because how clichéd is that? We were the special ones. Why were we suddenly in Spinal Tap?” How did John tell you he was leaving the band? “He just phoned me up and said he felt like a phoney onstage, and he was quitting playing guitar. He phoned Mani, too, and Mani said, ‘Why don’t you take your daughter to Africa for three months and come back?’ But he’d made his mind up. About a week later we were in the lawyer’s office signing off all our debts. And that was it. I’ve not seen him since.” It could have been worse. Didn’t Slash from Guns N’ Roses offer to play with you? “Slash offered to play guitar for us, through Doug Goldstein. I wish we’d taken him on, but at the time we were like, ‘No, we hate Guns N’ Roses, fuck off! Is he going to bring his python with him?’ and all that. But now I think it would have been amazing.” Was he aware of his increasing isolation? “Of course, but coke doubles isolation. In fact, he won’t have been thinking anything clearly. But when he phoned me up at home that night he said ‘Ian, I can’t do it. I’m a phoney.’ I said ‘Can’t do what?’. He said ‘Play the guitar anymore.’ I phoned him back in a couple of days and said ‘I waited for you all them years’. I went to see him and he wouldn’t open his door. He didn’t have the courtesy or the bottle. Next morning, he flies to London and has a press conference. Suddenly, he’s ‘just found’ a band and a management team and a solo deal. Yeah, sure you did. It was a surprise. I’d been phoning him through February cos we’d written six songs. He never phoned me back. I thought he was busy. Was he fuck! He was sorting out the rest of his life. He’s quite happy for some fat Hollywood guy to give him a schedule for the rest of the year, but I wasn’t. Cos that’s not what the Roses were about. Is that all he wants to be, a pop star?”
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: You ended 1995 in triumph at Wembley, but on April 1st 1996 John Squire quit. Were you surprised? “Definitely. I thought we’d be recording in April and doing the festivals in the summer. It was a complete surprise. John never once said he was upset. He never said a word. We’d done over 180 shows around the world and he never once phoned anyone else’s hotel room.”
From 2001 I Am Without Shoes Exclusive Mani Interview: > IAWS: Was any Seahorses material demoed by the Roses? Mani: Well, that whole album was written during the Roses. I used to hear the demos coming out of John’s room. IAWS: … And when you knocked on the door, the tape went off? Mani: Yeah, the guy had his own agenda, what can you say?
From 04 February 2000 Friday - Dave Simpson Interview with Ian Brown in private bar room in Kensington, London for The Guardian: "The four of us carry equal blame... Whatever one man was doing, another could have told them to stop it. But none of us were big enough. Rather than being on each other's backs, which made us good in the first place, we gave each other too much space and too much respect."
01 October 2009 Thursday 12:14 - The Guardian Newspaper article, by Guardian Music - Hannah Pool Interview: Have you forgiven John Squire for quitting the band by phone? It's all way in the past. He made a big mistake and he probably knows that. I don't think he needs me to rub his nose into the dirt. He probably thought, "I'll go and form this band, the Seahorses, and go around the world and everyone will love us and say what a genius I am." He didn't care what happened to me. I put my head down and got on with it and I'm still making music...
2016 - Robin Murray "Slash Almost Joined The Stone Roses" 05 August 2016 article. Speaking on the StageLeft podcast, Aziz Ibrahim confirmed that overtures were made to the legendary rock guitarist. "There had been auditions. Slash had offered to play," Ibrahim recently said on the StageLeft podcast. "There was a lot of bitterness and anger and so forth, maybe they wanted to piss [Squire] off, so they thought, ‘Let’s get the greatest rock icon of all time.'" "Slash was in England and his manager wanted to manage the (Stone) Roses," Ibrahim continued. "They thought, ‘Yeah yeah, we’ll get this big rock icon, that would really annoy John.’ Then they said something to the affect of, ‘We’re not going to work with a guy with leather pants, are we?' So Slash wasn't in".

22 March 1996 Friday - John rings Ian Brown to announce he is leaving the band.
From 20 April 1996 - John Squire appears on the cover of the NME (New Musical Express) Magazine: “I’d started coming round to the idea that I didn’t want to go in for the next album and I thought it was fair that I let them know. I was starting to hear noises on the grapevine that they wanted to go in and start recording. I knew Mani was on holiday so I just waited for him to get back before ‘phoning round. I ‘phoned him on the Thursday but I couldn’t get Ian, so I ‘phoned him on the Friday. They didn’t really accept it initially and they thought they could talk me round. I was quite surprised actually because I thought it was fairly obvious, the way the tour had gone, that it wasn’t fulfilling. Onstage was fine but…” The eyes race, the arms unfold and he pauses for breath. The pitch of his voice raises, approaching incredulity. “Solo all week… I thought there’s got to be a bit more than this.”
From From 03 January 1998 - NME Magazine: Ian said: He never once expressed dissatisfaction with the group, or he never told me he was unhappy with anything. He just phoned me up and that was it. A few days later at 7.30 in the morning I go round to his house, he opens the door and shakes his head. I’m like ‘What’s happened to you? Get in the car, John, come on, let’s go for a drive, have a talk.’ No, he wouldn’t do it. They say you’ve got to be ruthless to make it, but I never had that kid down as that. It’s tragic. Unnecessary.”

23 or 24 March 1996 Saturday - Oasis at The Point, Dublin
Notes: The news of John Squire's departure leaked out to former The Stone Roses' road crew following his telephone calls to the band last Thursday. From there it leaked to the Oasis road crew, many of whom used to work for The Stone Roses. Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley was told about Squire's decision on Saturday (March 24) following an Oasis gig at Dublin's The Point and contacted the band's publicist to check whether the report was true. Terri Hall contacted Squire and they agreed to go public.
From 06 April 1996 - Ian Brown & John Squire feature on the cover of NME (New Musical Express) Magazine, 85p: Jo Whiley told NME: "I was completely shocked. I feel very sorry for everyone involved. It was really ironic hearing about at an Oasis gig. If it hadn't been for the Roses you wonder what Oasis would have been like."
From Stuart Fletcher interview by Matt Mead published 11 February 2019: Was there any of the Roses crew that hung around the band at the time? Was there any that wasn’t? I think everyone involved was someone that knew John.

25 March 1996 Monday - Evening Session, BBC Radio 1 announces Squire's departure.
Notes: Ian Brown, Mani and Maddix held a meeting to persuade John to change his mind. Evening Session BBC Radio DJ Jo Whiley telephoned senior staff at Geffen and NME editor Steve Sutherland shortly after 18:00 to confirm the news.
From 06 April 1996 - Ian Brown & John Squire feature on the cover of NME (New Musical Express) Magazine, 85p: And Black Grape's Shaun Ryder said: "Of course I'm sad. I'm like 'Oh f---, The Stone Roses have split up'. I don't know any more about it. It's f---ing sad."

27 March 1996 Wednesday - Evening Session, BBC Radio 1
Notes: BBC 'scrape the barrel' by interviewing former manager, Gareth Evans.
He said: "John Squire has always been a solo act. When Reni went out of the band it was the heart and soul of the band. He was the main music inspiration."
Asked for his reaction to the news, Evans admitted that it had come as "a major surprise" to him. He then added: "Reni was the band, and once Reni left, the band changed totally. The Roses blew it in 1992 when they didn't play Madison Square Garden and the LA Forum. Those dates were booked and sold out, and they refused to go. They said they didn't want to do the numbers that they'd done on the album. The Roses thought that it would just happen. They read too much music history, and they were too much into old rock 'n' roll. They didn't realise that we were in the Nineties, and that things were changing with the new media."
Asked if he felt that these crucial mistakes had been the result of naivety or arrogance, he unhesitatingly replied: "Arrogance. They might have pulled it off, but for Oasis."
Whiley then commented that "Oasis would be such a different band if it hadn't been for The Stone Roses," and Evans agreed.
"Exactly," he said, and then added, "I'm worried about the roadies, and the people who have stayed with them. How much have they earned?"
When asked if he believed that there could be a future for The Stone Roses without John Squire, Evans replied: "In my opinion, John Squire will make it. They could have been the biggest band on the planet. We always said that. They were the leaders." Asked, in conclusion, whether he felt saddened by the news of the split, Evans spoke for many with the single word: "Yes."

April 1996 - Ride On Fanzine
Notes: Issue included an interview with Gareth Evans regarding John Squire quitting.
26 March 1996 - 'Ride On' Fanzine Interview
Q: So, why do you think this split has happened then? GE: Well, John Squire has always been a solo hack. When Reni went out of the band, it was the heart and soul of the band, he was the main music inspiration.
Q: Was that a surprise to you when Reni left? GE: A major surprise because Reni WAS the band and once Reni left the band changed, totally. The Roses blew it in 1992 when they didn't play Madison Square Gardens and LA Forum, those dates were booked, they were sold out and they refused to go.
Q: What was their problem? GE: They said that they didn't want to do the numbers they'd done on the album. The Roses thought it would just happen, they read too much music history and they were too much into old rock 'n' roll, they didn't realise that they were in the '90s and things were changing with the new media.
Q: So do you think it's naiveity or arrogance? GE: Erm, arrogance, they might have just pulled it off but for Oasis.
Q: Oasis would have been such a different band but for the Stone Roses. GE: Exactly, I'm worried about the roadies and the people who stayed with them, how much have they earned, sort of thing?
Q: Is there a future for the Stone Roses without John Squire? GE: In my opinion John Squire won't make it. They could have been the biggest band on the planet, we always said that, they were the leaders.
Q: So do you feel sad? GE: Yes.

01 April 1996, April Fools Day - PR Agent an official statement regarding John Squire's departure.
Notes: 'We feel as cheated as everyone else who's heard the news. We are now in the middle of recording the next LP. We're disgusted, yet feeling stronger and more optimistic than ever' 28 March 1996 - Ian Brown, Robbie Maddix and Nigel Ipinson.
'I wish them every success and hope they go on to greater things. My intentions are to continue writing whilst looking for partners in a new band, and to begin working as soon as possible. Thanks for everything' 01 April 1996 - John Squire.

M - 06 April 1996 - Ian Brown & John Squire feature on the cover of NME (New Musical Express) Magazine, 85p
Notes: The announcement was first made on the April 1st, but everyone thought it was an April Fools Day joke. Front page headline read 'The Stone Roses Split! John Squire quits'. The NME priced at 85p. See Media for the article.

M - 06 April 1996 - Melody Maker News Special
Notes: 'SQUIRE QUITS ROSES' See Media for the article.

10 April 1996 - Reni's 32nd birthday

M - 20 April 1996 - John Squire appears on the cover of the NME (New Musical Express) Magazine
Notes: John hints on forming a new band and touring, this would turn out to be the Seahorses. See Media for the article.

1996 The Stone Roses
Ian Brown - Vocals
Gary Mounfield - Bass Guitar
Rickenbacker 3005 Bass Guitar
Gibson EB-3 Bass Guitar
Mesa Boogie heads and cab

Robbie Maddix - Drums
Nigel Ipinson - Keyboards & Backing Vocals
Aziz Ibrahim - Guitar

April 1996 - Aziz Ibrahim joins The Stone Roses on guitar
Notes: Former Simply Red (1987/1988) & Rebel MC guitarist joins the band. I presume Robbie Maddix suggested Aziz, as they had played together in the band 'Gina Gina'.
Aziz attended Burnage High School, one of his classmates was former bass player Pete Garner. Aziz and
From February 1996 - Rhythm Magazine, Interview with Robbie Maddix by Pat Reid:
Gina Gina, which featured former Simply Red man Aziz Ibrahim. Robbie describes his former cohorts as, "Definitely some of the greatest musicians in the country. It was like Tackhead but it was urban, it was underground, so you could hear some serious funk overtones, but the rock in it was like Vai, man, on heat. It was some serious stuff and, because we were close friends and got into each other pretty deeply, we fell out. We're still friends but we don't work with each other in that way. I think we're all waiting to find our feet and then we'll do it, 'cos we have this natural thing as a team anyway."

May 1996 - Music Review Live! Britpop Invasion Volume 4 No.5, $3.25
Notes: The Stone Roses High Times In Dope Land sleeve appears on the front cover of the Music Review Live! magazine. A review of the bootleg is also included inside, other artists bootlegs reviewed include Elastica, Blur, Oasis, Patti Smith, Pulp and many more.

June 1996 - John Squire features in Q Magazine, Q117
Notes: Article by John Harris. See Media for the article.

1996 - Unconfirmed Studio/Demo Session, Manchester
High Time / Black Sheep / Ice Cold Cube / Untitled
Notes: A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed "The band wrote new songs, some of which were aired at Reading in ’96. Rumour has it that you have the demo tapes for the ever-elusive High Time and a song called Black Sheep? Yeah I do have those demos somewhere buried."
From 1995 - United We Stand (Late) Fanzine: TJ - So you've got some new material ready?
John Squire - We've got eight or nine half, three quarter written songs that we need to get together and jam out.
Gary 'Mani' Mounfield - We've also just mixed some live stuff last week. So we could end up with a live album or stuff to use for extra tracks for future releases....
From 02 December 1995 - NME Magazine, John Squire Interview: Squire said: “The live EP is double. The album is double, too. It was refreshing recording the track for ‘Help’ (ie, in one day). We were just falling apart when we recorded the last album. It’s not that much of a mystery that it took so long. We didn’t all want to be there at the same time.
From October 1995 - Australian Radio Interview with Robbie Maddix:
M – Moving off the press and getting back to the music. I understand you’re writing some new songs for the Roses? R –Yeah.
M – To what extent do you all contribute to putting together a song?
R – It works in different ways. I can write on the bass and the drum part.. you know it doesn’t really matter. I think the rest of the guys do the same thing. I’ve been speaking to Ian and John… John writes as very much an introverted sort of person so it’s very hard for him to sit in a room full of guys and sort of say yeah. He’d rather like to work out what he writes first before he presents it. It’s not a jam, it’s something he’s trying to write, he’s trying to show what he’s trying to do. Ian writes beat, bass lines, vocal, you know, a melody, and so you know at the moment everyone’s doing their thing, it’s very early days. I definitely really want to do a cracking next album. So, we’re taking it as speedily but as cautiously as we can.
M – You’ve contributed a bit to the songs the Stone Roses are working on at the moment?
R – We’re all doing individual things… we all write individually. We haven’t come together as a collective yet… so collectively I can’t say we’ve all sat in a room and worked it out cause we are on tour, but we’ve all certainly got our ideas and Ian’s put forward his ideas, and John’s got his ideas, and I’ve got my ideas and Mani’s got his ideas and when we get off the road in the next month we’ll sit down together and put them on the table… and say what’s good or bad, what could carry on, what could we move on with from there.
M – OK, so how many songs are kind of in the pipeline at the moment?
R – You know it’s hard to say. You know we are working on stuff that could potentially be a song that could make the album in six months time but it doesn’t. There’s a few songs working around.
M – When do you see yourselves going into the studio?
R – More than likely in the next month… well next couple of weeks we finish touring on the 12th and we don’t start again until November 28th, that’s the UK, we are trying to do Ireland before that. So there is six or seven weeks before we start touring on the road so there will definitely be studio time there. And then straight away in January we’re really going to start recording. Hopefully it will get ready for spring, out for summer. That’s our plans.
M – That’s great. Any idea who will be producing this next record?
R – I don’t know. Ian wants me to produce a few. The rest of the guys say they want me to produce a few. I wouldn’t want to do the whole thing, I want to be part of what’s happening, so we might get someone, I might co-produce the whole thing and not take anything, you know, directly on my own head. It could be three songs, it could be one. I’d love to do a couple and I probably will, but like I say, I do want to change my hats, sit down on the stool and kind of be told from a different perspective what may sound good or what may not be....
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: I’d been phoning him through February cos we’d written six songs. He never phoned me back. I thought he was busy. Was he fuck! He was sorting out the rest of his life. He’s quite happy for some fat Hollywood guy to give him a schedule for the rest of the year, but I wasn’t. Cos that’s not what the Roses were about. Is that all he wants to be, a pop star?”...Why did you carry on the Roses after he left? “I wanted to finish the mystique and be real. I thought with Aziz and Robbie fired up we could bury our history. Yeah, we managed that at Reading…”
16 February 2000 Wednesday - music365.com Ian Brown Q & A Session: Rob: Will you ever record 'High Times'? Ian: I've already recorded it, but we've lost the master tapes, so one day, maybe...
From 06-19 December 1995 - Raw Magazine: 'Ian didn't hold a grudge about John writing most of the stuff. John was on a roll and when John's on a roll there's no point in trying to compete. But for next year's album I've already written a couple of tunes and Ian's got about four songs. Ian's always got plenty to write about – he's a pretty opinionated person as you know – and he's writing a lot about injustice.”

June / July - Rehearsals, Manchester
High Time / Black Sheep / Ice Cold Cube / Fools Gold / Driving South
Notes: The band rehearse the set for the upcoming festival dates. They also work on some new material too.

02 August 1996 - Benicassim Festival, Festival Internacional De Benicassim, Valencia, Spain
I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Love Spreads / Waterfall / Made Of Stone / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Fools Gold / I Am The Resurrection / Breaking Into Heaven
Notes: Aziz's debut show. The whole Ten Storey Love Song - Daybreak - Breaking Into Heaven medley is scrapped and weirdly split by having Breaking Into Heaven played as the last song of the night. Fools Gold makes a return to the set, with another different arrangement. Apparently audience members were leaving the stage throughout the set, heading for other bands who performing at the same time. The sound was awful, a mix of the outdoor festival sound and the bands onstage set up too. The band headlined the festival.
The dancing girl, who would later appear at Reading, makes her debut here. Not sure if it was a PR stunt in relation to Begging You, the video clip featured dancing ladies too.
Broadcast: Spanish FM.
Re-broadcast: Spanish FM - I Wanna Be Adored / Love Spreads / Waterfall / Made Of Stone / Ten Storey Love Song / I Am The Resurrection
Bootleg: There It Goes - CD - FM Recording (Sleeve indicates 'Benicassum Festival, Madrid', The Spanish Radio Commentary has been edited)
Bootleg: Benicassim Festival - CD-R - (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "Recording from Spanish FM, so sound balance and recording are great, though the basslines are a bit grunty." Originally Priced: £11.00. Running Time (Approx):65mins) FM Recording
Bootleg: Benicassim Festival - Tape - (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Originally Priced: £3.50. Running Time (Approx):65mins) FM Recording
Bootleg: Nine Miles High (A PGP Production) (Sleeve has two soft toy cows in front of a stone roses poster) (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). "" CD Originally Priced: £11.00, Running Time (Approx): 74mins, Cassette originally priced: £3.50) I Wanna Be Adored (Hacienda, 1989) / Elephant Stone (Rare mix) aka Elephant Stone 7inch Backwards / Ten Storey Love Song (28 December 1995 Thursday - Sheffield Arena) / Daybreak (Benicassim, 1996) / Tears (Whitley Bay, 1995) / Where Angels Play (Tokyo, 1989) / Sally Cinnamon (Luxor, Germany, 1989) / Sugar Spun Sister (1986 Chorlton Demo) / Going Down (1986 Chorlton Demo) / Mersey Paradise (Blackpool, 1989) / Fools Gold (Spike Island, 1990) / This Is The One (Manchester, 1988) / Begging You (Stockholm, 1995) / I Am The Resurrection (Leicester, 1995) - CD-R / Tape
Bootleg: Spanish FM - I Wanna Be Adored / Love Spreads / Waterfall / Made Of Stone / Ten Storey Love Song / I Am The Resurrection

10 August 1996 - Villar De Mouros Festival 96, Aldeia de Villar de Mouros, Caminha, Portugal * Support Act(s): Young Gods, Freakpower, Dancas Ocultas, Report.Estrabico, Cool Hipnoise, Tara Pedida and more.
(unconfirmed) I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Love Spreads / Waterfall / High Time / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Fools Gold / I Am The Resurrection / Breaking Into Heaven
Notes: High Time is apparently performed here for the first time. The band headlined the festival. A short interview is recorded backstage with the band and broadcast on local TV. The interview is with the band and a short excerpt from She Bangs The Drums is played too, the footage shows the dancing girl from the Reading Festival and Benicassim Festival onstage with the band too.

11 August 1996 - Smukfest Festival, Skanderborg, Denmark
Notes: On the same day in the UK Oasis were playing the second of two, sold out, consecutive nights at Knebworth. John Squire appeared onstage with the band, see Seahorses section.
From March 1995 - Q Magazine, Who the hell do The Stone Roses think they are? (March 1995) by Adrian Deevoy: "Suede seemed like a step backwards to me," Brown ruminates. "Like when us and the Mondays were written about a lot of things seemed to be getting more and more real. Then house music broke. But Suede doing their '70s Bowie imitations took it back again. It was like London wanted something of its own. It was at that time that hip-hop and black music should have come through. To me, bands like Suede and Blur were in the way. Oasis are good but the others just got in the way."
Why are Oasis good and Blur not? It wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that Oasis come from Manchester, would it? "Oasis are real. Proper real," asserts Mani. "That always shines through." "Oasis," deadpans Brown, "just aren't… drama students."
From January 1997 - The Stone Roses feature in Q Magazine, Mani said: "When John left, they split the deal between Johnny's band and us," Mounfield explains. "At the time, it might have made business sense. Geffen don't hold it against us that we decided to fold, because it isn't fair to trade as The Stone Roses. We ain't any more."

14 August 1996 - Sziget Festival, Budapest, Hungary

23 August 1996 - Lowlands Festival, Biddinghuizen, Netherlands * CANCELLED *
Notes: Cancelled festival appearence. There was a couple of rumours regarding this one. One was several members of the bands passports/working visas had run out and they did not have enough time to renew them.
The second was the show was not in their contractual obligations so they chose not to play.

24 August 1996 - Mani tells Ian he is leaving the band.
Notes: Ian and Cressa go for a 'wild' night out.

25 August 1996 Sunday - Reading 96, Reading Festival, Main Stage, Reading * Doors Open: 12:00 * Ticket Price(s): Advance Day Ticket: £27.50, Three Day Ticket including Camping & Car Parking: £60.00 * Stage Times: The Stone Roses 22:00-23:15, Sonic Youth, Ash, Gene, Reef, Wedding Present 16:10-16:55, Moby, Compulsion, The Posies, Tracey Bonham, Audioweb 12:00-12:30
Intro - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / High Time / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / I Am The Resurrection / Ice Cold Cube / Breaking Into Heaven
encore: Driving South
Notes: August Bank Holiday Weekend. Underworld headlined the NME Stage, Babybird played the NME Stage too. The Raincoats headlined the Dr Martens Stage. The Stone Roses headline the main stage. This would be classed as 'the last show' for several years. Legendary for all the wrong reasons.
Ice Cold Cube & High Time are both played here for the first and last time. Ice Cold Cube would later be recorded by Ian Brown and released on his debut solo album 'Unfinished Monkey Business'.
Ian had reportedly had big night out with Cressa the night before and was feeling worse for wear on the day. The press conference before the show became just a legendary as the show itself. During the conference Ian Brown said: “John felt his power threatened. It was all a bit too much for him. He was on a power trip. Good luck to him, whatever he wants to be, but we’ve got some other ideas now.“.
During the show The Jay & Nigel Ippinson can be heard shouting "Stone Roses - yeah", "Let me hear you sing it" and "Let's see those hands in the air". If you listen closely to Aziz's playing at the beginning of the show you can hear riffs from his song 'Murassi', Ian Brown's solo track 'Gettin' High' features another excerpt from the same song too. The dancing girl from Benicassim Festival (02 August 1996) made another appearence too.
Stage Times taken from the official programme.
From November 1996 - Mani Interview in NME (New Musical Express) Magazine: “I enjoyed myself there, I really did. I f---ing really did,” he laughs, “seeing f---ing 60,000 people jumping around. I didn’t think it was that shit, to tell you the truth. I know Ian didn’t have the best of nights, but, you know, shit happens.”
From 26 April 1997 Saturday - NME Magazine (New Musical Express): John Squire said “I heard about the Reading gig. I read the block headlines, but I didn’t wanna read it. Stuart read a few bits to me, so I got the general impression.”
Did you want them to carry on? “Yeah I did. Definitely. Even after what they said about me at Reading. I mean, I knew there was no love lost, so I didn’t exactly expect fond wishes from them.”...
From October 1997 - Melody Maker Magazine: “I enjoyed that day, you know. When I came off the stage, I saw arms in the air and smiling faces. But when I heard the tape a couple of days later, I thought, ‘Oh, the singing is appalling.’
“I should’ve gone to bed the night before. I ended up staying up until about 8am. If I’d gone to bed, it would’ve been smoking. “Everything I’ve read about that gig is right. The band was smoking but the singer let them down, definitely.”...
From John Squire Interview 18 May 1997 - Sunday Mail, Scottish Daily Record: Singer Ian Brown said he felt "cheated and disgusted" at John's departure. John said: "I didn't try to break the band up. I know it upset a lot of people. I hoped they'd do well. I wanted them to carry on even after Reading."
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: Were the criticisms of your voice justified? “Yeah, sure. I’m not the world’s best singer, but when you’re onstage stood in front of four Fender Twins and you’ve only got a little monitor, you try singing. When I was onstage, I wasn’t allowed to have my voice coming through the side because he didn’t want to hear a voice. He’s got his four guitar amps turned up to 11, I’ve got a speaker that big. And I’m struggling to stay in tune because I can’t even hear anything. I’ve got films of them shows. He’s not playing with no band, he’s on his own. But I still think the shows were great.”...Why was Reading such a travesty? “I didn’t go to bed the night before, like a dick. We’d done five shows in Europe, and we’d been getting better each one. I saw Cressa [original 1989 Stone Roses dancer and “vibes man”] the night before and I went on the piss with him. Smoking weed all night, I was so excited. Normally I don’t drink. No powder, no. I haven’t touched powder since 1990. But it must have fucked my voice. At the time, I didn’t realise it was all going wrong. From the stage, I couldn’t see anyone crying or leaving. But later, when I heard the tape, I knew I sounded terrible. It was a cabaret version.”
From 1999 - ID Magazine, Ian Brown Interview by Tobias Peggs: So what about the criticism of the Roses' last Reading Festival appearance, that it spoiled the myth? Do you wish in retrospect you'd never played that gig? "No, not at all. My memory of that is 60,000 arms in the air and smiling faces. They can never take that away from me. I've heard a live tape and I know the vocals were poor. But all this stuff about it being a mass exit, and all these people crying saying it's a karaoke… I could still feel the happiness at the end. Anyway, I had no choice. John Squire had gone, but the Roses hadn't finished just 'cos the guitar player left. It was like a refusal to let someone else determine the path of my life. I don't regret it whatever."

May 1999 - Select Magazine, Article On Reading - Death Of The Roses, Reading 1996
While most legendary festival appearances burn in the memory for the sheer quality and finesse of the performance, the Stone Roses at Reading is one of the few instances in which a band will be forever remembered for being shamefully bad.
The seeds of disaster had been ver publicly sown earlier in the day when the newly expanded line-up took their places for a press conference at the site. Squarely blaming John Squire for the five year wait for second album 'Second Coming', Ian Brown went on to accuse him of "being on a power trip" and blamed Squire's reluctance to continue with the band on drug problems. Even the usually good-natured Mani spat out his own share of vitriol against Squire. "He wouldn't even bother to phone me if my entire family and everyone I knew in my village was killed in a plane crash," he said of his ex-colleague.
Despite this open display of playground bickering there were many still willing to believe that Roses could pull it off; that after all the catastrophes and cancellations and delays, they could return and at least put on a respectable show. And with Aziz Ibrahim's first few opening chimes of I Wanna Be Adored it seemed they were about to salvage some dignity. Then Ian Brown started singing…
What followed was a case study on how to stamp on a legacy until it's truly dead. As if Brown's foghorn vocals weren't enough to drive away the by now bewildered crowd, having drummer Robbie Maddix yell, "How we doing out there tonight? Are we gonna have it?" followed by the bizarre entrance of a leather-clad dancing girl saw them departing in their droves.
Backstage, former Roses dancer Cressa was pacing about telling everyone within earshot what a tragic display it was. "It's a nightmare, it's awful," he ranted. "Tell him! Just tell him how bad it was. Tell him to finish it, it's a travesty." And in a few weeks, Ian Brown did just that.

Ian Brown Interview from Uncut Magazine, June 2006, Issue 109: Do you take any blame for the acrimony that split the Roses? “Yeah, I can’t point the finger and say it was all them. I think we’ve all got to take a portion of the blame for having this beautiful thing and fucking it up. But I did do my best. I was everyone’s mate, I felt like I was daddy-ing everybody. And then we hit a brick wall, but you can’t live like that. We were 32-year-old men when we did Second Coming we weren’t kids.” That last Roses show at Reading ’96. What went wrong? “I keep reading reports that everyone was leaving in tears because this beautiful thing had been destroyed. But, at the end of that show, there were 60,000 people with their arms in the air. I didn’t see anyone crying, or leaving. But my friend Cressa came running up to me afterwards and said, ‘You have to sack it, that’s not the Roses.’ Cressa had been there from the beginning, so I needed to listen to him. But it was only when I listened to it on cassette the day after that I realised, it wasn’t that I was out of tune, I was in a completely different key to the rest of the band. It sounded terrible.” You disbanded the Roses two months later. How soon after Reading did you know it was over? “Probably about a week later when we had a meeting with Terri Hall, our publicist at the time. I understood; it was like when Mick Jones left The Clash, it wasn’t really the same band. I did go to Reading with the intention to bury the myth of The Stone Roses and launch the new Stone Roses. And we did bury the myth, but not in the way I intended.”

A 2007 Paul John Dykes Interview with Robbie Jay Maddix revealed "Reading ’96: what are your memories of the performance and overall experience? Reading was a bad day at the office. Nuff said." "After Reading, it took a couple of months before the official split. Did you think the band would continue? Ian, Mani and myself finished the Roses before the Reading festival. We knew beforehand that it was the last one. We had to do the last gigs because of contracts we had signed." "The band wrote new songs, some of which were aired at Reading in ’96. Rumour has it that you have the demo tapes for the ever-elusive High Time and a song called Black Sheep? Yeah I do have those demos somewhere buried."
Paul C. said: ''I recall an enormous anticipation as we all waited for the Roses to come on stage. Aziz did an excellent guitar intro as Ian and co. appeared - Ian took an enormous mouthful of water and spat it out all over the stage! Then he did it again! I could not believe how flat he was delivering the first line of I Wanna Be Adored - it really was bad! I beg to differ from most people's views, Aziz was excellent, considering he had about, I think, four weeks to learn the set. I play guitar, and Squire is a hard act to follow! I must admit the set did get better as Brownie picked up the vocals. To be honest the band were fuckin tight, but the sound at Reading ain't that clever compared to other sites. A crew near us threw a spliff right near Ian's feet - either he didn’t see it, or he had enough the night before. Still, I enjoyed every moment of them looking the bollox in their rock star shirts and shades - Memorable!''
Mani Interview From Uncut Magazine 13 May 2016: What are your memories of that final Roses show at Reading in 1996? “Good memories, in a way, because I knew one way or another that would close the book. Ian had a fucking hell of a lot of weight on him at that point. Just imagine your best friend leaving you in the lurch like that – it ain’t good. There were reasons, and I’m still good friends with John – I’m godfather to three of his kids. But with my hand on my heart, I can proudly say I stuck with Ian until the fucking end out of an absolute sense of dignity and love.”
Broadcast: TV * Intro - I Wanna Be Adored & Driving South were not broadcast.
Broadcast: Japanese TV
Bootleg: The Final Stage In Reading (BNCD 048. Probably Made In Japan. Silver Pressed CD.) - Partial TV Broadcast: She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / High Time / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / I Am The Resurrection / Ice Cold Cube / Breaking Into Heaven
Bootleg: The Final Coming - CD - Partial TV Broadcast: She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / High Time / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / I Am The Resurrection / Ice Cold Cube / Breaking Into Heaven
Bootleg: The Final Coming - CD - (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Originally Priced: £11.00) Partial TV Broadcast: She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / High Time / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / I Am The Resurrection / Ice Cold Cube / Breaking Into Heaven
Bootleg: Reading Festival (Version 1) - The Final Coming - Tape - (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Originally Priced: £3.50)
Bootleg: () TV Audio Rip
Bootleg: Reading Festival (Version 2) - Tape - Complete Audience Recording (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Originally Priced: £3.50. Running Time (Approx): 80mins)
Bootleg: Reading Festival ('Camden Market' Red coloured paper with black printing. Cover shows a photo of Ian and Aziz from the press conference. Source A Audience. On a TDK D 90 cassette.) - Side 1 Intro - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / High Time / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / I Am The Resurrection - Side 2 - Ice Cold Cube / Breaking Into Heaven / Driving South - (TDK D60m) Tape

Bootleg: Reading Festival - Tape - Complete Audience Recording (probably sourced from Audience Video)
Bootleg Video: Reading Festival - Partial TV Broadcast with Press Conference and Interviews
Bootleg Video: Reading Festival - Partial TV Broadcast
Video Bootleg: Reading Festival (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Originally Priced: £16.00. Running Time (Approx): 3 hours) 25 August 1996 Sunday - Reading 96 - (Film from the audience): I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Love Spreads / Waterfall / Made Of Stone / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Fools Gold / I Am The Resurrection / Breaking Into Heaven - Japanese TV (Professional filming from on-stage cameras) She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / High Time / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / I Am The Resurrection / Ice Cold Cube / Breaking Into Heaven - Reading Press Conference / Interviews at Reading - VHS
Video Bootleg: Reading Festival (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Originally Priced: £15.00) Video (PAL, NTSC) - Running Time (Approx): 2.5 hours - 25 August 1996 Sunday - Reading 96 - (Film from the audience): I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Love Spreads / Waterfall / Made Of Stone / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Fools Gold / I Am The Resurrection / Breaking Into Heaven - Japanese TV (Professional filming from on-stage cameras) She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / High Time / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / I Am The Resurrection / Ice Cold Cube / Breaking Into Heaven
Bootleg: Reading Festival DVD (IAWS I Am Without Shoes / stoneroses.net (Will Odell). Originally Priced: £16.00) Japanese TV (Professional filming from on-stage cameras): She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / High Time / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / I Am The Resurrection / Ice Cold Cube / Breaking Into Heaven - Reading Press Conference / Interviews at Reading *IAWS discovery - recorded from master - guaranteed lowest generation you'll find* Interviews at Reading - with Ian, Aziz, Mani, Robbie and Nigel.
Bootleg: Mirage Of Madchester (CD & 25 August 1996 Sunday - Reading 96 DVD. A-tera Records, A-TERA-041 Z01) CD (FM/Pre-FM) 13 December 1995 - Town & Country Club, Leeds - I Wanna Be Adored / She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Breaking Into Heaven / Your Star Will Shine / Tightrope / Love Spreads / Good Times / Made Of Stone / Driving South / I Am The Resurrection - DVD (TV Broadcast) 26 August 1996 - Reading Festival, Reading - She Bangs The Drums / Waterfall / High Time / Ten Storey Love Song / Daybreak / Love Spreads / Made Of Stone / I Am The Resurrection / Ice Cold Cube / Breaking Into Heaven
Bootleg Video: Reading Festival 8.25 96' (VHS 15898) - Complete Amateur Audience Video Recording
Bootleg Video: Death of The Roses (2 DVD-R, Footstomp Label. FSVD-059-1/2, Double Disc Contains Three Shows) - Complete Amateur Audience Video Recording
Bootleg: TV - Ian Brown Rock AM Festival 19/05/02 & Stone Roses Reading 96 - DVD-R

M - 31 August 1996 - Ian Brown features on the cover of NME (New Musical Express) Magazine
Notes: Front page headline read 'And on the third day...The Roses again The ultimate reading review.'. See Media for the article.

M - 31 August 1996 - Ian Brown features on the front cover of Melody Maker
Notes: Front page 'Reading Special. Stone Roses Death or Glory at Reading 96?'. See Media for the article.

M - 07 September 1996 - NME (New Musical Express) Magazine
Notes: Headline ‘A Bad Year For The Roses’.

October 1996 - The Stone Roses appear on the cover of Japanese Crossbeat Magazine
Notes: Includes photos from Reading Festival.

N - 1996 - Ian Brown moves out of his parents and into a house in Warrington
Notes:
01 October 2009 Thursday 12:14 - The Guardian Newspaper article, by Guardian Music - Hannah Pool Interview: After the band split up, there was a break before you brought out your solo stuff. What kind of a time was that for you? It was hard. I was skint and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me: it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken....
From Uncut Magazine, June 2006, Issue 109: ''With a Second Coming royalty cheque for nine grand, he puts a deposit down on an ex-council house in Warrington. Brown’s first impulse is to become a gardener and sell flowers at market, like his grandfather. A simple, honourable life. He digs over his garden. But friends keep nagging him not to give up on music.''
From 2002 Lindsay Baker Interview with Ian: Brown - penniless, he says - went to live in a council flat in Warrington. Kids would come to his door, saying, "You're a legend", and he'd reply, "If I'm a legend, where's me pool ?"
23 May 2006 09:41 - The Daily Mail article by Piers Hernu: "I had two sons in a council flat and no money to raise them," he finally says in a broad Mancunian accent. "People would knock on my door at midnight and tell me I was a legend, and I wondered how they could. I used to tell them, if you really do love me, please leave me alone. "The band had been together 12 solid years and ended up being signed to a big American label, Geffen, but still I ended up living like that. I never had self-doubt. But after all the bulls***, I certainly didn't have any inclination or will to work in music. "I wanted the simple life. I wanted to grow flowers and take them to market, like my grandad had done before the War. I've always thought that would be a beautiful, honourable way to live." After a bleak period of soul-searching, it was his fans who pointed the way forward. "Kids on the street would say to me, 'You're Ian Brown, make some music!', and it got me thinking. After a few months I regained my love for making music."

1996 - Texas ask Reni to drum for the band, he declined...

The Stone Roses - 1996 - Sally Cinnamon Re-release U.K. Date
Sally Cinnamon, Here It Comes, All Across the Sand - Written by John Squire & Ian Brown.
Produced by Simon Machan & The Stone Roses. Mixed by Roger Boden.
CD 1996 Pressing, Matrix: REVXD36 MADE IN THE U.K. BY CD-SYSTEMS 03833
Revolver, REV XD 36
Barcode: 5 016681 003600 >
Produced by Simon & The Stone Roses. Mixed by Roger Boden.
Black Records. 152 Goldthorn Hill, Penn, Wolverhampton, WV2 3JA.
Sally Cinnamon (12inch Version) aka 12" Single Mix
Sally Cinnamon (7inch Version) aka Single Mix
All Across the Sand
Here It Comes
Notes: The continuous re-release of Sally Cinnamon, would be a long running joke for fans and a constant headache for the band.

29 October 1996 Tuesday - Mani leaves The Stone Roses to join Primal Scream
Notes: Mani tried to persuade Reni to join too.
From Blood On The Turntable BBC TV Documentary, Mani said: I didn't like the way it ended, it was all messy, in the...of making music, not business, in the business of ruining friendship. The guys (Gareth Evans) got no morals, what-so-ever, but one day it's going to comeback and bite him on the arse hard, I can't wait to piss in his grave.
John Robb said: “It was the greatest free transfer in the history of roek’n‘roll"
From September - October 1999 - On Target Magazine, Mani Interview: When the Roses split after Reading in the summer of '96, didn't you join the Scream halfway through the Vanishing Point sessions?
"Really, halfway through the last Scream tour of Britain it was like at Brighton Conference Centre and I'd had a whiff that John Squire was up to something. When we were recording The Second Coming LP we were in this residential gaff and I'd go across the corridor to his room you know 'cause I'd hear a tune coming out. I'd think 'Oh that's a new one. I've not heard it before' and as I'd knock on his door the fuckin' tape would go off. That was half of The Seahorses LP he's fuckin' preparing there so I knew he was planning sommut. So I kidnapped Bobby Gillespie after the Brighton Conference Centre gig and just sort of said to him 'How about it?' so in a way we did the deal six months before I actually left. I was pretty happy. I knew I was probably gonna be heading there, you know what I mean? I'm fucking glad I did. I'd only be in trouble with the police or sommut now (giggles)."

October 1996 - The Stone Roses Take Another Break...
From Blood On The Turntable BBC TV Documentary, Gareth Evans said: I have regrets with my time with The Stone Roses. The regrets are, erm, I never showed my feelings to them, I really loved those guys, but it never worked out. Mani said: What a fucking cunt.
1998 - Hot Press, Interview by Stuart Bailie, in a bar in Chorlton: "I knew how strong we were at the end of ’95. Someone else made me close it down. It took me a while to get over the fact that I felt robbed of the natural thing that I was doing."

M - November 1996 - NME (New Musical Express) Magazine
Notes: Ian is questioned regarding The Stone Roses demise.
See Media for the article, quotes include:
“Having spent the last ten years in the filthiest business in the universe, it’s a pleasure to announce the end of The Stone Roses. May God bless all who gave us their love and supported us throughout this time. Special thanks to the people of Manchester who sent us on our way. Peace be upon you.”
'One day I'll tell everyone's who's interested the real story behind The Stone Roses. All I wanna do is kick back and enjoy the new Audioweb LP'
"The remaining members of the band – singer Ian Brown, drummer Robbie Maddix, guitarist Aziz Ibrahim and keyboard player Nigel Ipinson – will continue to work together under a different name. Mani said he hoped to collaborate with them in the future."
From February 1998 - Uncut magazine Ian Brown interview: The band fell apart three weeks later. The final statement you issued seemed very bitter. “Why was it bitter? I said ‘Having spent the last 10 years in the filthiest business in the world, it’s a pleasure to announce the end of the Stone Roses.’ It was a pleasure and it is the filthiest business in the world. There were other problems. I got paid £9,000 in ’95. We made £1.2 million on the road and it disappeared – partly cos Evans was suing us and we were paying lawyers, and partly cos people in the camp got light-fingered. At the end, I was glad to get out.”

M - 1996 - Ian Brown goes on a 'long' holiday to Morocco.
Notes: He may have rented a holiday home, or bought a dwelling, and took frequent visits.
1998 - Hot Press, Interview by Stuart Bailie, in a bar in Chorlton: Some of that sensibility also kicked in when he took a holiday to Morocco after the Roses had finished. There he witnessed the muezzin call to prayer – singing without any commercial purpose, a pure spiritual expression of Islam, and it blew him away. "It lifted me off my feet, like a Saturday afternoon when I was 14 – it was so rough and raw, echoing off the walls. The most uplifting thing I’ve heard for a long time."
He is less accepting of the bohemian types who have used North Africa to indulge their sensual whims. "There used to be a thousand brothels in Tangiers. Westerners used to go to get smashed out of their faces, to pick up women and kids. ‘60’s intellectuals and pop stars – they all went over there to abuse the people."...

09 November 1996 - Melody Maker Magazine
Notes: Dave Simpson writes an article reagrding the band's split, see Medai for the article.

M - November 1996 - Mani Interview in NME (New Musical Express) Magazine
Notes: Tommy Udo NME Interview at Mani's Home, Tuesday in Stockport. See Media for the article.
...AS A coda to The Stone Roses story, there will be live album released next year which will include material from both studio albums and the band’s singles, recorded during their 1995 dates. According to Mani, the remaining former Roses – Brown, Maddix, Ibrahim and Ipinson – are sticking together and have already written new songs which Mani says hold out the prospect of Ian Brown pulling off a Shaun Ryder-style resurrection. “Listen mate, I’ve heard 12 songs and they’re sounding pretty good to me!” he laughed. “You know, those two new songs we played at Reading were just two that were rustled up quickly to show that we could. They’re all talented, creative guys, they’ll come back with a smash LP. I’m sure of it.”

16 November 1996 - Mani's 34th birthday
24 November 1996 - John Squire's 34th birthday

Kula Shaker - Hey Dude
Notes: Produced by Johm Leckie.
From November 2001 - I Am Without Shoes (thestoneroses.net) John Leckie Interview: IAWS: Was it your idea or Kula Shaker's to insert 8 seconds of a lead, note for note, from the Roses' 'I Am The Resurrection' into 'Hey Dude' by Kula Shaker. Why was this done? JL: Don't know. I never noticed this...you'll have to ask Crispian.

November 1996 - Garage Flower U.K. Release Date
Label: Garage Flower Records / Thin Line Records / Zomba Records
All songs written by Squire, Brown & Couzens except Here It Comes, I Wanna Be Adored, This Is The One, Tell Me & So Young by Squire & Brown.
Lyrics by Ian Brown.
Produced by Martin Hannett. Engineered by Chris Nagle and John Hurst.
Recorded at Strawberry Studios / Yellow Two, Stockport. A Thin Line Production 1986.
"Special Thanks To Howard Jones, Tim Chambers, Dennis Morris, Kevin Cummins, Steve Atherton, John Breaknell, Chris Glen, Slim & Tony The Greek"
Artwork: 'The inner photo was taken 22 November 1984 - Ad Lib Club, Kensington, London, There is no actual credit for the photo mentioned in the sleeve.'
Format: CD. Catalog Number: GARAGECD1 - Zomba Records - Manufactured In Austria - Garage Flower Records / Thin Line Records - 1986. Matrix: 0117687-MUSH23347 2 01 IFPI L601 SMEA IFPI651D
Format: Vinyl. Catalog Number:
Getting Plenty 4:04
Here It Comes (1985 Version) 2:39
Trust A Fox 3:03
Tradgic Roundabout 3:12
All I Want 3:39
Heart On The Staves 3:19
I Wanna Be Adored (1985 Version) 3:29
This Is The One (1985 Version) 3:41
Fall 2:49
So Young 3:18
Tell Me 3:52
Haddock 0:14
Just A Little Bit 3:08
Mission Impossible 3:47
Notes: See '1985 - Garage Flower, Recording Sessions' for extra details regarding the recording sessions. Conflicting release dates, I have November 1996 noted but also February 1996 too?
It reached number 58 in the U.K album charts.
It was distributed by Pinnacle, The Stone Roses did not authorise the release. The story goes that Andy Couzens and Silvertone Records released the material. Andy Couzens also wrote the songwriting credits for the release, including himself in several credits. The album credits Just a Little Bit as written by 'Squire/Brown/Couzens' Andy thought the royalties would be unfair towards the bands composition writing process, despite not including Reni or Peter in the credits on the release. Andy has denied his involvement with the release and has expressed that Zomba/Silvertone release the tape to 'cash in' on the Roses' demise.
So Young & Tell Me are the same as the bands debut single. The contents were produced by Martin Hannet, although the album does not state any production or recording credits.
Chris Nagle is credited for Engineering the debut So Young / Tell Me single but online is credited for engineering the entire Garage Flower LP. It is unconfirmed whether this is true.
It is not known when the deliberate misspelling of the song was decided. It had appeared on bootlegs prior to its official release on "Garage Flower" under the spelling of "Tragic Roundabout". It is possible the spelling of tradjic was only decided on around 1996 when the album was eventually released.
Here It Comes includes the additional, end of song, lyric "You're a useless fucker".
From 2001 - I Am Without Shoes Exclusive Andy Couzens Interview: IAWS: How did Garage Flower get released, and on what label was it on? Were Silvertone involved at all?
AC: Garage Flower was released Garage Flower records a wholly owned subsidiary of Zomba Music who also own Silvertone. So yes Silvertone were involved (same staff same office) the only difference being the band own the tape and licence it to them for release.
Will, do I get the impression that people think I was responsible for the release of Garage Flower and that it is in fact a bootleg?
IAWS: I think that's the general consensus as far as Garage Flower goes, yes. Is that a false impression?
AC: Couldn't be further from the truth, Zomba/Silvertone put it out. All the members of the band were party to the deal and we all get paid the way it should've been - "equally". We still, each of us, own the copyright and they license it from us. This gives us the right to take it elsewhere or not to put it out at all.
20 April 2018 - Andy Couzens XS Noize Interview by Mark Millar: Why was the 'Garage Flower' album shelved? I think we realized that there are probably only three or four good songs on there and the other stuff wasn't quite right. It was what it was, and that was us just starting out and learning. They were all the songs that we had at that time - it was everything we had ever written together. It's one of these urban myths, but it was released under license by the band through Silvertone. Everyone thinks it was bootlegged in 1996, but it wasn't at all. The tapes reverted back to the band, so it is the band including myself who own those tapes, but Ian Brown won't put them out again, so that's that.
See Media for 14 December 1996 - NME Magazine Paul Moody Review

26 February 1997 - Garage Flower Japanese Release Date
CD CTCZ-30001 Made In Japan CD Released: 26 February 1997 / Re-Released: 25 February 1999 Y2,3000
Cutting Edge Records, Garage Flower Records, 1986 Thin Line Productions
Notes: CD Extra feature took you to Avex Network Website, Japanese Stone Roses promo page.